Parallel Verses
NET Bible
So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"
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?
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?"
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 torrent valley are sweet to him; behind him everybody follows in procession, and before him goes a countless throng. 34 So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!"
Phrases
Cross References
Job 16:2
"I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!
Job 13:4
But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
Job 32:3
With Job's three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.
Job 42:7
After the Lord had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.