Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
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?"
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?"
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 21:34
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Seventh Speech: A Response To Zophar
33 Sweet to him have been the clods of the valley, And after him every man he draweth, And before him there is no numbering. 34 And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
Phrases
Cross References
Job 16:2
I have heard many such things, Miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 13:4
And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,
Job 32:3
and against his three friends hath his anger burned, because that they have not found an answer, and condemn Job.
Job 42:7
And it cometh to pass after Jehovah's speaking these words unto Job, that Jehovah saith unto Eliphaz the Temanite, 'Burned hath Mine anger against thee, and against thy two friends, because ye have not spoken concerning Me rightly, like My servant Job.