- Bible
- Job
- Chapter 21
- Verse 34
Job 21:34
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
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Commentary
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Barnes' Notes
How then comfort ye me in vain ... - That is, how can you be qualified to give me consolation in my trials, who have such erroneous views of the government and dealings of God? True consolation could…
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…
Academic commentary, 1882–1921
Cambridge Bible
Job feels he has refuted the theories of his friends in regard to the pretended calamities and misery of the wicked man, whether in life or death. Hence their attempts to comfort him by this line of…