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Job 13:4

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You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!

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I sent him this reply: “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your head.”

“I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!

You have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?

But my brothers are as undependable as intermittent streams, as the streams that overflow

They are distressed, because they had been confident; they arrive there, only to be disappointed.

Now you too have proved to be of no help; you see something dreadful and are afraid.

Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep your precepts with all my heart.

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the Lord. “They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the Lord.

There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sore, no healing for you.

“Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt. But you try many medicines in vain; there is no healing for you.

They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. ‘Peace, peace,’ they say, when there is no peace.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is there no healing for the wound of my people?

You have not strengthened the weak or healed the sick or bound up the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his sores, then Ephraim turned to Assyria, and sent to the great king for help. But he is not able to cure you, not able to heal your sores.

On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”

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




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