King James Version

Job 21:34

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

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וְ֭אֵיךְveeykhand howאֵיךְconjunction, particle, interrogative — “and how”H349how? or how!; also wherehow, what.תְּנַחֲמ֣וּנִיtenachamunicomfortנָחַםverb, piel, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, plural, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “comfort”, an unfinished actionH5162properly, to sigh, i.e. breathe strongly; by implication, to be sorry, i.e. (in a favorable sense) to pity, console or (reflexively) rue; or (unfavorably) to avenge (oneself)comfort (self), ease (one's self), repent(-er,-ing, self).הָ֑בֶלhavelvanityהֶבֶלnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “vanity”, the ordinary formH1892emptiness or vanity; figuratively, something transitory and unsatisfactory; often used as an adverb[idiom] altogether, vain, vanity.וּ֝תְשֽׁוּבֹתֵיכֶ֗םuteshuvoteykhemand answerתְּשׁוּבָהconjunction, noun, common, feminine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “and answer”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH8666a recurrence (of time or place); a reply (as returned)answer, be expired, return.נִשְׁאַרnisharleaveשָׁאַרverb, niphal, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “leave”, a completed actionH7604properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundantleave, (be) left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.מָֽעַלmaalfalsehoodמַעַלnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “falsehood”, the ordinary formH4604treachery, i.e. sinfalsehood, grievously, sore, transgression, trespass, [idiom] very.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?

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American Standard Version (1901)

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

Young’s Literal Translation

And how do ye comfort me [with] vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?

World English Bible

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

Darby Translation

How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.

Douay-Rheims

How then do ye comfort me in vain, whereas your answer is shewn to be repugnant to truth?

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

How then comfort ye me in vain? And as for your answers, there remaineth only faithlessness?

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

How then do ye comfort me in vain? whereas I have no rest from your molestation.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Πῶς δὲ παρακαλεῖτέ με κενά; τὸ δὲ ἐμὲ καταπαύσασθαι ἀφʼ ὑμῶν οὐδέν.