And yet, ye are forgers of falsehood, Physicians of nought -- all of you,Job 13:4 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleYe 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.
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ye are forgers
Job 4:7-11 Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off...
Job 5:1-5 Call now, if there be any that will answer you; and to which of the saints will you turn...
Job 8:3,4 Does God pervert judgment? or does the Almighty pervert justice...
Job 18:5 Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.
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Job 21:27-34 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which you wrongfully imagine against me...
Job 22:6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
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Exodus 20:16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Psalm 119:69 The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep your precepts with my whole heart.
physicians
Job 6:21 For now you are nothing; you see my casting down, and are afraid.
Job 16:2 I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are you all.
Jeremiah 6:14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Jeremiah 30:13 There is none to plead your cause, that you may be bound up: you have no healing medicines.
Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; for you shall not be cured.
Ezekiel 34:4 The diseased have you not strengthened, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken...
Hosea 5:13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb...
Mark 2:17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick...
Mark 5:26 And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
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