How then comfort ye me in vain, Seeing in your answers there remaineth only falsehood?
So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
And how do ye comfort me with vanity, And in your answers hath been left trespass?
How then comfort ye me in vain? Your answers remain perfidious.
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXI. This is Job's reply to Zophar's discourse, in which he complains less of his own miseries than he had done in his former discourses (finding that his friends were not moved by his complaints to pity him in the least), and comes closer to the…