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Job 13:4

New English Translation

But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!

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I sent word back to him, “We are not engaged in these activities you are describing. All of this is a figment of your imagination.”

“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters are you all!

If you yourselves have all seen this, Why in the world do you continue this meaningless talk?

My brothers have been as treacherous as a seasonal stream, and as the riverbeds of the intermittent streams that flow away.

They were distressed, because each one had been so confident; they arrived there, but were disappointed.

For now you have become like these streams that are no help; you see a terror, and are afraid.

Arrogant people smear my reputation with lies, but I observe your precepts with all my heart.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

I, the Lord, affirm that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. I, the Lord, affirm it!”

There is no one to plead your cause. There are no remedies for your wounds. There is no healing for you.

Go up to Gilead and get medicinal ointment, you dear poor people of Egypt. But it will prove useless no matter how much medicine you use; there will be no healing for you.

They offer only superficial help for the harm my people have suffered. They say, ‘Everything will be all right!’ But everything is not all right!

There is still medicinal ointment available in Gilead! There is still a physician there! Why then have my dear people not been restored to health?

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost, but with force and harshness you have ruled over them.

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria, and begged its great king for help. But he will not be able to heal you! He cannot cure your wound!

When Jesus heard this he said to them, “Those who are healthy don’t need a physician, but those who are sick do. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

She had endured a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all that she had. Yet instead of getting better, she grew worse.




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