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Job 13:4

New American Bible - revised edition

But you gloss over falsehoods, you are worthless physicians, every one of you!

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I sent him this answer: “Nothing of what you report is happening; rather, it is the invention of your own mind.”

I have heard this sort of thing many times. Troublesome comforters, all of you!

Look, you yourselves have all seen it; why do you spend yourselves in empty words!

My companions are undependable as a wadi, as watercourses that run dry in the wadies;

They are disappointed, though they were confident; they come there and are frustrated.

It is thus that you have now become for me; you see a terrifying thing and are afraid.

The arrogant smear me with lies, but I keep your precepts with all my heart.

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Yes, I am against the prophets who tell lying dreams—oracle of the Lord—those who lead my people astray by recounting their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them; they do this people no good at all—oracle of the Lord.

There is none to plead your case, no remedy for your running sore, no healing for you.

Go up to Gilead, procure balm, Virgin daughter Egypt! No use to multiply remedies; for you there is no healing.

They have treated lightly the injury to my people: “Peace, peace!” they say, though there is no peace.

Is there no balm in Gilead, no healer there? Why does new flesh not grow over the wound of the daughter of my people?

You did not strengthen the weak nor heal the sick nor bind up the injured. You did not bring back the stray or seek the lost but ruled them harshly and brutally.

When Ephraim saw his infirmity, and Judah his sore, Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he cannot heal you, nor take away your sore.

Jesus heard this and said to them [that], “Those who are well do not need a physician, but the sick do. I did not come to call the righteous but sinners.” The Question About Fasting.

She had suffered greatly at the hands of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet she was not helped but only grew worse.




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