Job 13:4
2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.
3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
- KJV
- But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- WEB
- But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
- ASV
- But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
- DARBY
- For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- BLB
- But you⁺, are plasterers of a lie, worthless physicians all of you⁺.
- ÅB
- Men dere spinner løgn sammen, dere er alle dårlige leger.
- OTB
- Men dere dekker meg med løgner;
Dere er alle ineffektive leger. - B1930
- Men I spinner løgn sammen, I er alle dårlige læger.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 119:69
The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
Read in contextJob 16:2
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Read in contextJeremiah 23:32
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
Read in contextJeremiah 6:14
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Read in contextMark 5:26
And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
Read in contextJeremiah 8:22
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Read in contextHosea 5:13
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
Read in contextJeremiah 30:13
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.
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