Job 21:34

Modern

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

Traditional

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

Literal

And how can you comfort me in vain, and in your answers remains falsehood?”

Latin

Quomodo igitur consolamini me frustra, cum responsio vestra repugnare ostensa sit veritati?

Hebrew

English

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

They told lies about Job and God (13:4; 42:7).

Job 16:2
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
Job 32:3
…and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
Job 13:4
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
Job 42:7
After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.