Christian Standard Bible
Job 13:4
4You use lies like plaster; you are all worthless healers.
Job 13:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
- New International Version (NIV)You, however, smear me with lies; you are worthless physicians, all of you!
- English Standard Version (ESV)As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
- New King James Version (NKJV)But you forgers of lies, You are all worthless physicians.
Context of Job 13:4
2Everything you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 3Yet I prefer to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God. You use lies like plaster; you are all worthless healers. 5If only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom! 6Hear now my argument, and listen to my defense.
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וְֽאוּלָ֗ם אַתֶּ֥ם טֹֽפְלֵי־שָׁ֑קֶר רֹפְאֵ֖י אֱלִ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 13:4
- Job 4:7Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
- Job 5:1Call out! Will anyone answer you? Which of the holy ones will you turn to?
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?
- Job 18:5Yes, the light of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.
- Job 21:27I know your thoughts very well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
- Job 22:6For you took collateral from your brothers without cause, stripping off their clothes and leaving them naked.
- Exodus 20:16Do not give false testimony against your neighbor.
- Psalms 119:69The arrogant have smeared me with lies, but I obey your precepts with all my heart.
- Job 6:21So this is what you have now become to me. When you see something dreadful, you are afraid.
- Job 16:2I have heard many things like these. You are all miserable comforters.
- Jeremiah 6:14They have treated my people’s brokenness superficially, claiming, “Peace, peace,” when there is no peace.
- Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? So why has the healing of my dear people not come about?
- Jeremiah 30:13You have no defender for your case. There is no remedy for your sores, and no healing for you.
- Jeremiah 46:11Go up to Gilead and get balm, Virgin Daughter Egypt! You have multiplied remedies in vain; there is no healing for you.
- Ezekiel 34:4You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bandaged the injured, brought back the strays, or sought the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
- Hosea 5:13When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, Ephraim went to Assyria and sent a delegation to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
Commentaries on Job 13:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Ye are forgers of lies - Ye frame deceitful arguments: ye reason sophistically, and pervert truth and justice, in order to support your cause. Physicians of no value - Ye are as feeble in your reasonings as ye are inefficient in your skill. Ye can neither heal the wound of my mind, nor the disease of my body. In ancient times every wise man professed skill in the healing art, and probably Job's friends had tried their skill on his body as well as on his…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4But ye are forgers of lies - The word lies here seems to be used in a large sense, to denote sophisms, false accusations, errors. They maintained false positions; they did not see the exact truth in respect to the divine dealings, and to the character of Job. They maintained strenuously that Job was a hypocrite, and that God was punishing him for his sins. They maintained that God deals with people in exact accordance with their charactor in this world…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. forgers of lies--literally, "artful twisters of vain speeches" [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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