Job 13:4
A plain-spoken deep dive on this verse. Read the chapter →
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
Original language
The Hebrew and Greek words behind this passage, with Strong's numbers — from openscriptures (CC BY-SA).
Cross-references
Other passages the community most often connects to this one. Tap to read.
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
“Indeed,” declares the LORD, “I am against those who prophesy false dreams and retell them to lead My people astray with their reckless lies. It was not I who sent them or commanded them, and they are of no benefit at all to these people,” declares the LORD.
They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.
She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.
When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.
You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.
There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.
Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.