KJV ORIGINAL
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood?
Close to the original. Clear modern English.
✦ MADE SIMPLE
So how can you comfort me with empty words, when your answers are full of lies?
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
Job is telling his friends that their attempts to comfort him are meaningless because they're based on false assumptions about his situation.
📚 Historical Context
Job is responding to his three friends (Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar) who have been trying to explain his suffering by claiming he must have sinned. Throughout their dialogue, they insisted that God always punishes the wicked and rewards the righteous in this life. Job has just finished arguing that wicked people often prosper while good people suffer, directly contradicting his friends' simplistic theology.
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