Job 21:34 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³⁴How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?

Job 21:34 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 16:2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Job 32:3
Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Job 13:4
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Job 42:7
And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

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Deceit Deception False Teachers Falsehood Liars Lying Perjury Slander

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 27-34)

In these verses, I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had now fallen into, and none but the wicked, upon which principle they condemned Job as a wicked man. “ I know your thoughts,” says Job (Job 21:27); “I know you will not agree with me; for your judgments are tinctured and bia…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 34)

34. falsehood--literally, “transgression.” Your boasted “consolations” (Job 15:11) are contradicted by facts (“vain”); they therefore only betray your evil intent (“wickedness”) against me.