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How,אֵיךְthen,וְdo you comfort meתְּנַחֲמוּנִיin vain,הָבֶלand of your answersוּתְשׁוּבֹתֵיכֶםthere remainsנִשְׁאַרunfaithfulness?”מָעַל
Job 21:34
Study it in the app“How, then, do you comfort me in vain, and of your answers there remains unfaithfulness?””
With the Hebrew beneath
Job 21:34, word by word
- do you comfort meתְּנַחֲמוּtenachamu
comfort
To ease someone in his pain with words and company.
Where else “tenachamu” appears- in vainהָבֶלhavel
vain
With no result or gain, like someone toiling for nothing.
Where else “havel” appears- and of your answersתְשׁוּבֹתֵיteshuvote
answer
What someone answers in order to defend himself or reply to another.
Where else “teshuvote” appears- there remainsנִשְׁאַרnishar
remain
To remain, what is left.
Where else “nishar” appears- unfaithfulnessמָעַלmaal
unfaithfulness
Unfaithfulness, a breach of trust.
Where else “maal” appears
The context
33Sweet to him are the clods of the valley; and after him every human being goes, and before him, without number.
34 · This verse (above)