So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”
In these verses, I. Job opposes the opinion of his friends, which he saw they still adhered to, that the wicked are sure to fall into such visible and remarkable ruin as Job had now fallen into, and none but the wicked, upon which principle they condemned Job as a wicked man.
Commenting on Job 21:27-34
falsehood--literally, "transgression." Your boasted "consolations" (Job 15:11) are contradicted by facts ("vain"); they therefore only betray your evil intent ("wickedness") against me. Next: Job Chapter 22
How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? (u) Saying that the just in this world have prosperity and the wicked adversity.