Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"
New American Standard Bible
For your answers remain full of
King James Version
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Holman Bible
Your answers are deceptive.
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?
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
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
33 [The] clods of [the] valley are sweet to him; everyone will follow after him, and {before} him {they are innumerable}. 34 So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"
Phrases
Cross References
Job 16:2
"I have heard many [things] like these; all of you [are] {miserable comforters}.
Job 13:4
"But you {whitewash with lies}; all of you [are] {worthless healers}.
Job 32:3
and {he became angry} at his three friends because they had not found an answer, and they had declared Job guilty.
Job 42:7
{And then} after Yahweh spoke these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "{My wrath has been kindled} against you and against [the] two of your friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right as my servant Job [has].