Job 13:4
Good News Translation
You cover up your ignorance with lies; you are like doctors who can't heal anyone.

New Revised Standard Version
As for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless physicians.

Contemporary English Version
you are merely useless doctors, who treat me with lies.

New American Bible
But you gloss over falsehoods, you are worthless physicians, every one of you!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.

ye are forgers

Job 4:7-11 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed? . . .

Job 5:1-5 Call now, if there be any that will answer thee, and turn to some of the saints. . . .

Job 8:3,4 Doth God pervert judgment, or doth the Almighty overthrow that which is just? . . .

Job 18:5 Shall not the light of the wicked be extinguished, and the flame of his fire not shine?

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Job 21:27-34 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me. . . .

Job 22:6 For thou hast taken away the pledge of thy brethren without cause, and stripped them naked of their clothing.

*etc:

Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Psalm 119:69 The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.

physicians

Job 6:21 Now you are come: and now, seeing my affliction, you are afraid.

Job 16:2 I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.

Jeremiah 6:14 And they healed the breach of the daughter of my people disgracefully, saying: Peace, peace: and there was no peace.

Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Galaad? or is there no physician there? Why then is not the wound of the daughter of my people closed?

Jeremiah 30:13 There is none to judge thy judgment to bind it up: thou hast no healing medicines.

Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Galaad, and take balm, O virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain dost thou multiply medicines, there shall be no cure for thee.

Ezekiel 34:4 The weak you have not strengthened, and that which was sick you have not healed, that which was broken you have not bound up, and that which was driven away you have not brought again, neither have you sought that which was lost: but you ruled over them with rigour, and with a high hand.

Hosea 5:13 And Ephraim saw his sickness, and Juda his band: and Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to the avenging king: and he shall not be able to heal you, neither shall he be able to take off the band from you.

Mark 2:17 Jesus hearing this, saith to them: They that are well have no need of a physician, but they that are sick. For I came not to call the just, but sinners.

Mark 5:26 And had suffered many things from many physicians; and had spent all that she had, and was nothing the better, but rather worse,

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
3But yet I will speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.5And I wish you would hold your peace, that you might be thought to be wise men.…
Cross References
Nehemiah 6:8
And I sent to them, saying: There is no such thing done as thou sayest: but thou feignest these things out of thy own heart.

Job 16:2
I have often heard such things as these: you are all troublesome comforters.

Psalm 119:69
The iniquity of the proud hath been multiplied over me: but I will seek thy commandments with my whole heart.

Jeremiah 23:32
Behold I am against the prophets that have lying dreams, saith the Lord: and tell them, and cause my people to err by their lying, and by their wonders: when I sent them not, nor commanded them, who have not profited this people at all, saith the Lord.

Job 13:3
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