Job 13:4

Job accuses his friends of inventing falsehoods and offering worthless cures. Their counsel only deepens his wound.

Cross-references · 19

• Ps 119:69The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.
• Jer 6:14They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.
• Jer 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
• Jer 23:32Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them, nor command them; neither do they profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.
• Mark 5:26and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,
• Job 16:2“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!
• Jer 46:11Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain do you use many medicines. There is no healing for you.
• Hos 5:13“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.
• Ezek 34:4You haven’t strengthened the diseased, neither have you healed that which was sick, neither have you bound up that which was broken, neither have you brought back that which was driven away, neither have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with rigor you have ruled over them.
• Jer 30:13There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.
• Mark 2:17When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
• Job 4:7–11“Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
• Job 22:6–30For you have taken pledges from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing.
• Job 5:1–5“Call now; is there any who will answer you? To which of the holy ones will you turn?
• Job 6:21For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.
• Job 21:27–34“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
• Job 18:5–21“Yes, the light of the wicked shall be put out, The spark of his fire shall not shine.
• Job 8:3–4Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?
• Exod 20:16“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

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