Then I sent a message to him, saying, “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are devising them from your own heart.”
Job 13:4 - Tree of Life Version You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless doctors—all of you! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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 a message to him, saying, “Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are devising them from your own heart.”
“I have heard many things like these; you are miserable comforters, all of you!
Look, you have all seen this yourselves. Why then this meaningless talk?
My brothers have acted deceptively, as a seasonal stream, as a torrential stream that overflows
They were distressed because they had been confident; they came so far and were disappointed.
“Indeed, now you have become nothing; you see a terror and are afraid.
Though the proud smeared a lie on me, with all my heart I keep Your precepts.
Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” declares Adonai, “and tell them, and so lead My people astray with their lies and with their reckless boasts. Yet I never sent them or commanded them. Nor do they benefit this people at all.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
No one pleads your cause, for there is no remedy for your wound, no healing for you.
Go up into Gilead and get balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain you use many medicines— there is no cure for you.
They healed the wound of My people superficially, saying ‘Shalom, shalom!’ when there is no shalom.”
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Then why has no healing gone up for the daughter of my people?
You do not strengthen the weak, heal the sick, bind up the broken, bring back the stray or seek the lost. Instead, you have ruled over them with force and cruelty.
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent envoys to a warring king. But he cannot heal you nor will he cure your wound.
And when He heard this, Yeshua said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a doctor, but those who are sick do. I did not come to call the righteous, but the sinful.”
who had suffered much under many doctors. She had spent all that she had without benefit; instead, she grew worse.