Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”
Job 13:4 - Revised Standard Version As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 But ye are forgers of lies, Ye are all physicians of no value. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But you are forgers of lies [you defame my character most untruthfully]; you are all physicians of no value and have no remedy to offer. American Standard Version (1901) But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value. Common English Bible You, however, are plasterers of lies; ineffective healers, all of you. Catholic Public Domain Version having first shown that you fabricate lies and cultivate perverse teachings. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies and maintainers of perverse opinions. |
Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”
Behold, all of you have seen it yourselves; why then have you become altogether vain?
My brethren are treacherous as a torrent-bed, as freshets that pass away,
They are disappointed because they were confident; they come thither and are confounded.
Such you have now become to me; you see my calamity, and are afraid.
The godless besmear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep thy precepts;
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, says the Lord, and who tell them and lead my people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them; so they do not profit this people at all, says the Lord.
There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.
Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! in vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.
They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the crippled you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to cure you or heal your wound.
And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick; I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”
and who had suffered much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better but rather grew worse.