English Standard Version
Job 13:4
4As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
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!
- New King James Version (NKJV)But you forgers of lies, You are all worthless physicians.
- New Living Translation (NLT)As for you, you smear me with lies. As physicians, you are worthless quacks.
Context of Job 13:4
2What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you. 3But I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to argue my case with God. As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all. 5Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom! 6Hear now my argument and listen to the pleadings of my lips.
Read all of Job 13Job 13:4 word by word
וְֽאוּלָ֗ם אַתֶּ֥ם טֹֽפְלֵי־שָׁ֑קֶר רֹפְאֵ֖י אֱלִ֣ל כֻּלְּכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 13:4
- Job 4:7"Remember: who that was innocent ever perished? Or where were the upright cut off?
- Job 5:1"Call now; is there anyone who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
- Job 8:3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert the right?
- Job 18:5"Indeed, the light of the wicked is put out, and the flame of his fire does not shine.
- Job 21:27"Behold, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.
- Job 22:6For you have exacted pledges of your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing.
- Exodus 20:16"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
- Psalms 119:69The insolent smear me with lies, but with my whole heart I keep your precepts;
- Job 6:21For you have now become nothing; you see my calamity and are afraid.
- Job 16:2"I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
- Jeremiah 6:14They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying, 'Peace, peace,' when there is no peace.
- Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
- Jeremiah 30:13There is none to uphold your cause, no medicine for your wound, no healing for you.
- Jeremiah 46:11Go up to Gilead, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt! In vain you have used many medicines; there is no healing for you.
- Ezekiel 34:4The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them.
- Hosea 5:13When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to the great king. But he is not able to 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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