Verse 4
As for you, ye are workmaisters of lyes, and vnprofitable phisitians altogether.
Referenced Verses
- Ps 119:69 : 69 The proude haue forged a false tale agaynst me: but I wyll kepe thy commaundementes with my whole heart.
- Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there not triacle at Gilead? Is there no phisitio there? why then is not the health of my people recouered?
- Jer 46:11 : 11 Go vp vnto Gilead, and bryng triacle O virgin thou daughter of Egypt: but in vayne shalt thou go to surgerie, for thy wounde shall not be stopped.
- Job 16:2 : 2 I haue oft times heard such thinges: miserable geuers of comfort are ye all the sort of you.
- Job 18:5-9 : 5 Yea, the light of the vngodly shalbe put out, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him. 7 The steppes of his strength shalbe restrayned, and his owne counsaile shall cast him downe: 8 For his feete are taken as it were in the net, & he walketh vpon the snares. 9 The grinne shall take him by the heele, and it shall catche him that is thirstie of blood. 10 The snare is layde for him in the grounde, and a pitfall in the way. 11 Fearefulnesse shall make him afraide on euery side, and shall driue him to his feete. 12 Hunger shalbe his strength, and destruction shalbe redye at his side. 13 It shall eate the strength of his owne skinne, euen the first borne of death shall eate his strength. 14 His hope shalbe rooted out of his dwelling, and shall bring him to the king of feare. 15 Other men shall dwell in his house, and it shalbe none of his, and brimstone shall be scattered vpon his habitation. 16 His rootes shalbe dryed vp beneath, and aboue shall his braunche be cut downe. 17 His remembraunce shall perishe from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete. 18 They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde. 19 He shall neither haue children nor kinsfolkes among his people, no nor any posteritie in his dwellinges. 20 They that come after him, shalbe astonyed at his day, and they that go before shalbe afrayde. 21 Such are now the dwellinges of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.
- Job 21:27-34 : 27 Beholde, I know what ye thinke, yea and the subtiltie that ye imagine against me. 28 For ye say where is the princes palace? and where is the dwelling of the vngodly? 29 Haue ye not asked them that go by the way? Doubtlesse ye cannot denie their tokens, 30 That the wicked is kept vnto the day of destruction, and the vngodly shalbe brought foorth to the day of wrath. 31 Who dare declare his way to his face? who wil rewarde him for that he doth? 32 Yet shall he be brought to his graue, and dwell among the heape of the dead. 33 Then shal the slymie valley be sweet vnto him, all men also must folowe him, as there are innumerable gone before him. 34 Howe vayne then is the comfort that ye geue me, seyng falshood remayneth in all your aunsweres?
- Job 22:6-9 : 6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for naught, and robbed the naked of their clothing. 7 To such as were weery, hast thou geuen no water to drinke, & hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie. 8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in auctoritie dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast sent wydowes away emptie, and the armes of the fatherlesse were broken. 10 Therefore art thou compassed about with snares, & sodenly vexed with feare. 11 Shouldest thou then see no darknesse? shoulde not the water fludde run ouer thee? 12 Is not God on high in the heauen? beholde the heyght of the starres how hie they are. 13 Wilt thou therfore say, Tushe, howe should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude? 14 Tushe, the cloudes couer him that he may not see, and he walketh on the top of heauen. 15 Hast thou marked the way of the world, wherin wicked men haue walked? 16 Whiche were cut downe out of time, and whose foundation was as an ouerflowing ryuer. 17 Whiche sayd vnto God, Go from vs: and asked what the almightie coulde do for them? 18 He filled their houses with good things: but the counsell of the vngodly be farre from me. 19 The righteous sawe it and were glad, and the innocent laughed them to scorne. 20 Is our substaunce bewen downe? As for the remnaunt of them the fire hath consumed. 21 Therefore reconcile thee vnto God, and be at peace: so shall all thinges prospere with thee right well. 22 Receaue I pray thee the lawe at his mouth, and lay vp his wordes in thyne heart. 23 For if thou wilt turne to the almightie, thou shalt be buyld vp, and put all vnrighteousnes from thy dwelling. 24 Thou shalt lay vp golde as plentyful as the dust, and the golde of Ophir as the flyntes of the riuers. 25 Yea almightie God his owne selfe shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer. 26 Then shalt thou haue thy delite in the almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God. 27 Then shalt thou make thy prayer vnto him, and he shall heare thee, and thou shalt kepe thy promises. 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shall establishe it vnto thee, and the light shall shine in thy wayes. 29 When the wicked be cast downe, thou shalt say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person. 30 The innocent shal deliuer the Ilande: it shalbe preserued by the purenesse of thyne handes.
- Exod 20:16 : 16 Thou shalt not beare false witnesse agaynst thy neyghbour.
- Job 4:7-9 : 7 Consider I pray thee who euer perished beyng an innocent? or when were the godly destroyed? 8 For as I haue proued by experience, they that plow iniquitie & sow wretchednesse, reape the same. 9 With the blast of God they perishe, with the breath of his nostrels are they consumed away. 10 The roring of the lion, and the voyce of the lion, and the teeth of the lions whelpes are pulled out. 11 The lion perisheth for lake of pray, & the lions whelpes are scattered abrode.
- Job 5:1-5 : 1 Crye I pray thee, if there be any that will aunswere thee, & loke thou vpon any of the holy. 2 As for the foolish ma, wrathfulnesse killeth him, and enuie slayeth the ignorant. 3 I haue seene my selfe when the foolish was deepe rooted, and sodenly I cursed his habitation. 4 His children were without prosperitie, and they were slayne in the gate, and there was no man to deliuer them. 5 His haruest was eaten of the hungrie, & taken from among the thornes, and the thurstie drunke vp their labour: It is not the earth that bringeth foorth iniquitie,
- Job 6:21 : 21 Euen such truely are ye, nowe that ye see my miserie ye are afrayde.
- Job 8:3-4 : 3 Doth God paruert the thing that is lawfull? or doth the almightie destroy the thing that is right? 4 For seyng that thy sonnes sinned against him, did not he send them into the place of their iniquitie?
- Ezek 34:4 : 4 The weake haue ye not strengthened, the sicke haue ye not healed, the broken haue ye not bounde together, the dryuen away haue ye not brought againe, the lost haue ye not sought: but with force and crueltie haue ye ruled them.
- Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim sawe his sicknesse, and Iuda his disease, Ephraim went vnto Assur, and sent vnto kyng Iareb, yet coulde not he helpe you, nor ease you of your payne.
- Mark 2:17 : 17 When Iesus hearde that, he saide vnto them: They that be whole, haue no nede of the phisition, but they that are sicke: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentaunce.
- Mark 5:26 : 26 And had suffred many thynges, of many phisitions, and had spent all that she had, and felt none amendemet at all, but rather the worse.
- Jer 23:32 : 32 Beholde, here am I saith the Lorde, against those prophetes that dare prophecie lying dreames, and deceaue my people with their vanities and inconstant deuices, yet I neuer sent nor commaunded them: They shall do this people no good at all, saith the Lorde.
- Jer 30:13 : 13 There is no man to meddle with thy cause, or to lay plaster vpon thee, or to bynde vp thy woundes to heale thee.
- Jer 6:14 : 14 And beside that, they heale the hurt of my people with sweete wordes, saying, Peace, peace: when there is no peace at all.