Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

So how can you offer me such futile comfort?
Your answers are deceptive.

New American Standard Bible

“How then will you vainly comfort me,
For your answers remain full of falsehood?”

King James Version

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

International Standard Version

How then, can you console me so worthlessly? What is left of your answers is treachery."

A Conservative Version

How then ye comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

American Standard Version

How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?

Amplified


“How then can you vainly comfort me with empty words,
Since your answers remain untrue?”

Bible in Basic English

Why then do you give me comfort with words in which there is no profit, when you see that there is nothing in your answers but deceit?

Darby Translation

How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.

Julia Smith Translation

And how will ye comfort me in vain, and your answers remained treachery?

King James 2000

How then do you comfort me in vain, seeing in your answers there remains falsehood?

Lexham Expanded Bible

So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"

Modern King James verseion

How then do you comfort me in vain? Yea, in your answers remains transgression.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"

NET Bible

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"

New Heart English Bible

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, seeing that in your answers there remains only falsehood?"

The Emphasized Bible

How then should ye comfort me with vanity, since, as for your replies, there lurketh, in them treachery?

Webster

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

World English Bible

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?"

Youngs Literal Translation

And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
נחם 
Nacham 
Usage: 108

ye me in vain
הבל הבל 
hebel 
Usage: 73

תּשׁבה תּשׁוּבה 
T@shuwbah 
Usage: 8

שׁאר 
Sha'ar 
Usage: 134

Context Readings

Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar

33 The dirt on his grave is sweet to him.
Everyone follows behind him,
and those who go before him are without number.
34 So how can you offer me such futile comfort?
Your answers are deceptive.

Cross References

Job 16:2

I have heard many things like these.
You are all miserable comforters.

Job 13:4

But you coat the truth with lies;
you are all worthless doctors.

Job 32:3

He was also angry at Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute him and yet had condemned him.

Job 42:7

After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about Me, as My servant Job has.

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