Parallel Verses

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

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

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?

Holman Bible

So how can you offer me such futile comfort?
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?

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.

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 Then shall he be fain to be buried among the stones by the brookside. All men must follow him, and there are innumerable gone before him. 34 How vain, then, is the comfort that ye give me? Are not your answers clean contrary to right and truth?"

Cross References

Job 16:2

"I have oft times heard such things. Miserable givers of comfort are ye, all the sort of you.

Job 13:4

As for you, ye are workmasters of lies, and unprofitable physicians altogether.

Job 32:3

And with Job's three friends he was angry also, because they had found no reasonable answer to overcome him.

Job 42:7

Now when the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, he said unto Eliphaz the Temanite, "I am displeased with thee and thy two friends, for ye have not spoken the thing that is right before me, like as my servant Job hath done.

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