Job 13:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.”
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BSBPD
“You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“And yet, ye <FI>are<Fi> forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought--all of you,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 13:4 — 22 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 20:16You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Job 4:7Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Job 5:1“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- Job 6:15But my brothers are as faithless as wadis, as seasonal streams that overflow,
- Job 6:20They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.
- Job 6:21For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 16:2“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
- Job 18:5Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 22:6For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.
- Job 27:12Surely all of you have seen it for yourselves. Why then do you keep up this empty talk?
- Psalms 119:69Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
- Jeremiah 6:14They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
- Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- Jeremiah 23:32“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 30:13There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
- Jeremiah 46:11Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
- Ezekiel 34:4You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- Hosea 5:13When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
- Mark 2:17On hearing this, Jesus told them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
- Mark 5:26She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.
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