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New American Standard Bible (1995)
Job 13:4
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You use lies like plaster;you are all worthless healers.
But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
But you smear me with lies. You are worthless doctors, all of you!
But you, however, are inventors of lies; all of you are worthless physicians!
"But you smear me with lies [you defame my character most untruthfully]; You are all worthless physicians and have no remedy to offer.
"But you smear me with lies; You are all worthless physicians.
But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.
For in deede ye forge lyes, and all you are physitions of no value.
But you cover me with lies;You are all worthless physicians.
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
you are merely useless doctors, who treat me with lies.
But you, what you do is whitewash with lies; you are all witch doctors!
For ye indeed are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
But you men try to cover up your ignorance with lies. You are like worthless doctors who cannot heal anyone.
But you are forgers of lies; you are all healers of no value.
You cover up your ignorance with lies; you are like doctors who can't heal anyone.
"But you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless healers.
But you are imputers of lies; you are all worthless healers.
As for you, ye are workmasters of lyes: and vnprofitable Phisicians alltogether.
But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
But you put a false face on things; all your attempts to put things right are of no value.
But ye are plasterers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
But ye are forgers of lies, yee are all Physicians of no value.
As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether.
But ye are all bad physicians, and healers of diseases.
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
and firste Y schewe you makeris of leesyng, and louyeris of weyward techyngis.
But you are forgers of lies; You are all physicians of no value.
But ye [are] forgers of lies, ye [are] all physicians of no value.
But you forgers of lies, You are all worthless physicians.
As for you, you smear me with lies. As physicians, you are worthless quacks.
But you cover things with lies. You are doctors of no worth.
As for you, you whitewash with lies; all of you are worthless physicians.
For, in truth, ye, do besmear with falsehood, Worthless physicians, all of you!
Having first shewn that you are forgers of lies, and maintainers of perverse opinions.
As for you, you whitewash with lies; worthless physicians are you all.
And yet, ye [are] forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
ye are forgers: Job 4:7-11, Job 5:1-5, Job 8:3, Job 8:4, Job 18:5-21, Job 21:27-34, Job 22:6-30, Exodus 20:16, Psalms 119:69
physicians: Job 6:21, Job 16:2, Jeremiah 6:14, Jeremiah 8:22, Jeremiah 30:13, Jeremiah 46:11, Ezekiel 34:4, Hosea 5:13, Mark 2:17, Mark 5:26
Reciprocal: Genesis 34:13 - deceitfully 2 Chronicles 16:12 - physicians Nehemiah 6:8 - thou feignest Job 2:11 - to comfort Job 6:28 - if I lie Job 11:3 - thy lies Job 15:3 - he reason Job 21:34 - seeing Job 27:12 - altogether Job 36:4 - my Daniel 5:10 - let not Zechariah 10:2 - they comfort Matthew 27:4 - see Luke 8:43 - neither
Cross-References
To Seth, to him also a son was born; and he called his name Enosh. Then men began to call upon the name of the LORD.
So Abram went up from Egypt to the Negev, he and his wife and all that belonged to him, and Lot with him.
Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.
He went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock. Now the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.
So Abram said to Lot, "Please let there be no strife between you and me, nor between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers.
Then Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD.
O Lord , I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.
For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness.
Oh give thanks to the Lord , for He is good, For His lovingkindness is everlasting.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But ye [are] forgers of lies,.... This is a hard and very harsh saying; Job was now in a passion, provoked by his friends, and retorts upon them what they had charged him with, Job 11:3; so often in controversies and disputes between good men undue heats arise, and unbecoming words drop from their lips and pens; to tell lies is a bad thing, but to forge them, to tell a studied premeditated lie, is dreadfully shocking, contrary to the grace of God, and which good men cannot allow themselves in, it is the character of bad men, see
Isaiah 63:8; but it may be Job may not design lies in a strict and proper sense, but falsehoods and untruths; for though no lie is of the truth, yet every untruth is not a lie; because a man may deliver an untruth, not knowing it to be so, but taking it for a truth, speaks it, without any design to impose upon and deceive others. Doctrinal lies may be intended, such as the false prophets told, whereby they made the hearts of the righteous sad, and were the untempered mortar they daubed with, Ezekiel 13:10; and the word here used has the same signification, and may be rendered, "daubers of lies" o; that colour over things, and make falsehoods look like truths, and deliver them for such, and like others speak lies in hypocrisy: now those here referred to were these, that God did not afflict good men, at least in any very severe manner, and that Job, being thus afflicted, was a bad man, and an hypocrite; both these Job charges as lies:
ye [are] all physicians of no value; or "idol physicians" p; not that pretended to the cure of idols, but were no better than idols themselves, and understood no more how to cure than they, than an Heathen deity, the god of physic Aesculapius, or anyone that might be reckoned such; but was no other than an image of wood or stone, and so could not be possessed of the faculty of healing, and such were Job's friends; an idol is nothing, and is good for nothing, and such were they as physicians, they were idol physicians, like the "idol shepherd", Zechariah 11:17; of no value at all: the Rabbins q say, the word used signifies a nerve or sinew of the neck, which when broken is incurable; and such physicians were they, that could do him no service, no more than cure a broken neck; this is to be understood of them, not as physicians of his body, that they pretended not to be; he was greatly diseased from head to foot, and had no hope of a recovery of his health, nor did they pretend to prescribe for him, nor does he reproach them on that account; but as physicians of his soul, afflicted and distressed, they came to administer comfort to him under his afflictions, but they were miserable comforters, as he elsewhere calls them, Job 16:2; instead of acting the part of the good Samaritan, and pouring in oil and wine into his wounds, Luke 10:34, they poured in vinegar, and made them bleed and smart the more, and added affliction to his affliction; instead of healing, they wounded him yet more and more; and, instead of binding up his wounds, opened them wider, and gave him sensible pain; instead of giving him the cordials of the Gospel, they gave him the corrosives the law; and instead of pointing out unto him the gracious promises of God, for the support of his afflicted soul, they loaded him with charges of sin, and set him to work by repentance and reformation to obtain the forgiveness of them: they said many good things, but misapplied them, being ignorant of the case, and so were physicians of no value; as such are who are ignorant of the nature and causes of a disease, and therefore make wrong prescriptions, though the medicines they prescribe may in themselves be good: indeed, in the cases of souls, or for the healing of the diseases of the soul, which are natural and hereditary, epidemical and universal, nauseous and loathsome, and of themselves mortal, all physicians are of no value; but Jesus Christ, who is the only physician of souls, the able, skilful, and infallible one, that cures all fully freely that apply unto him; bodily physicians are no use in such cases, nor merry companions, nor legal preachers, who direct to supple the wounds with tears of repentance, and bind them up with rags of a man's own righteousness; Christ is the only Saviour, his blood the balsam that heals every wound, and his righteousness that affords peace, joy, and comfort to afflicted minds, and delivers from those weights and pressures of mind with which they are bowed down.
o טפלי שקר "incrustatores fuci", Schultens. p רפאי אלל "curatores idoli", Bolducius; so Ramban; "medici idoli", Pineda; so some in Drusius. q Jarchi & Bar Tzemach.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But 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, all of which Job regarded as false doctrine, and asserted that they defended it with sophistical arguments invented for the purpose, and thus they could be spoken of as “forgers of lies.”
Physicians of no value - The meaning is, that they had come to give him consolation, but nothing that they had said had imparted comfort. They were like physicians sent for to visit the sick, who could do nothing when they came; compare Job 16:2.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 13:4. Ye 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 mind. He therefore had, in his argument against their teaching, a double advantage: Your skill in divinity and physic is equal: in the former ye are forgers of lies; in the latter, ye are good-for-nothing physicians. I can see no reason to depart from the general meaning of the original to which the ancient versions adhere. The Chaldee says: "Ye are idle physicians; and, like the mortified flesh which is cut off with the knife, so are the whole of you." The imagery in the former clause is chirurpical, and refers to the sewing together, or connecting the divided sides of wounds; for טפלי topheley, which we translate forgers, comes from טפל taphal, to fasten, tie, connect, sew together. And I question whether טפלי topheley here may not as well express SURGEONS, as רפאי ropheey, in the latter clause, PHYSICIANS. Ye are CHIRURGEONS of falsity, and worthless PHYSICIANS.
