What does Job 21:34 mean?

Job 21:34 highlights themes such as comfort, truth, suffering when read in context.

How should I apply Job 21:34 today?

Read the surrounding passage, compare related cross references, and turn the verse into a short prayer and concrete action.

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

32Yet shall he be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.

33The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.

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

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Job 16:2
Both verses express Job's frustration with the responses of his friends.
Proverbs 25:11
This verse emphasizes the importance of truthful words, contrasting with Job's experience.
2 Corinthians 1:3-4
This verse discusses the comfort God provides, which Job feels is lacking.