Verse 4

But you are forgers of lies, you are all worthless physicians.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:69 : 69 The proud have forged a lie against me, but I will keep Your precepts with my whole heart.
  • Jer 8:22 : 22 Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? Why then is the health of the daughter of my people not recovered?
  • Jer 46:11 : 11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shall you use many medicines; you shall not be cured.
  • Job 16:2 : 2 I have heard many such things; miserable comforters are you all.
  • Job 18:5-9 : 5 Indeed, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine. 6 The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him. 7 The steps of his strength shall be shortened, and his own counsel shall cast him down. 8 For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walks upon a snare. 9 The trap shall take him by the heel, and the robber shall prevail against him. 10 The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way. 11 Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, and shall drive him to his feet. 12 His strength shall be weakened by hunger, and destruction shall be ready at his side. 13 It shall consume the strength of his skin: even the firstborn of death shall consume his strength. 14 His confidence shall be uprooted from his dwelling, and it shall bring him to the king of terrors. 15 It shall dwell in his tent, because it is no longer his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation. 16 His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off. 17 His memory shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street. 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world. 19 He shall neither have son nor descendant among his people, nor any remaining in his dwellings. 20 Those who come after him shall be astonished at his day, as those who went before were terrified. 21 Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him who does not know God.
  • Job 21:27-34 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts and the schemes you wrongfully imagine against me. 28 For you say, 'Where is the house of the prince? And where are the dwelling places of the wicked?' 29 Have you not asked those who travel the road? And do you not know their signs? 30 That the wicked is reserved for the day of destruction? They shall be brought forth to the day of wrath. 31 Who will declare his way to his face? And who will repay him for what he has done? 32 Yet he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb. 33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet to him; everyone shall follow him, as countless before him. 34 How then can you comfort me with empty words, seeing in your answers there lies falsehood?
  • Job 22:6-9 : 6 For you have taken a pledge from your brother for nothing, and stripped the naked of their clothing. 7 You have not given water to the weary to drink, and you have withheld bread from the hungry. 8 But as for the mighty man, he possessed the land; and the honorable man lived in it. 9 You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken. 10 Therefore snares are all around you, and sudden fear troubles you; 11 Or darkness, that you cannot see; and an abundance of waters covers you. 12 Is not God in the height of heaven? And behold the height of the stars, how high they are! 13 And you say, 'How does God know? Can He judge through the dense cloud? 14 Thick clouds are a covering to Him, so that He does not see; and He walks on the circuit of heaven.' 15 Have you marked the old way which wicked men have trodden, 16 Who were cut down before their time, whose foundations were swept away by a flood? 17 They said to God, 'Depart from us,' and 'What can the Almighty do for us?' 18 Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me. 19 The righteous see it and are glad, and the innocent laugh them to scorn. 20 Our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumes. 21 Acquaint yourself with Him now and be at peace; thereby good will come to you. 22 Receive, I pray you, the law from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up, and you shall put away iniquity far from your tents. 24 Then you shall lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks. 25 Yes, the Almighty shall be your defense, and you shall have plenty of silver. 26 For then you shall have your delight in the Almighty, and lift up your face to God. 27 You shall make your prayer to Him, and He shall hear you, and you shall pay your vows. 28 You shall also decree a thing, and it shall be established for you, and light shall shine upon your ways. 29 When they cast down, then you shall say, 'There is lifting up;' and He shall save the humble person. 30 He shall deliver the island of the innocent; and it is delivered by the purity of your hands.
  • Exod 20:16 : 16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
  • Job 4:7-9 : 7 Remember, I pray you, who ever perished, being innocent? Or where were the righteous cut off? 8 Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same. 9 By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of his nostrils they are consumed. 10 The roaring of the lion and the voice of the fierce lion, and the teeth of the young lions, are broken. 11 The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the stout lion are scattered abroad.
  • Job 5:1-5 : 1 Call now, if there be any who will answer you; and to which of the holy ones will you turn? 2 For anger kills the foolish man, and envy slays the simple one. 3 I have seen the foolish taking root: but suddenly I cursed his dwelling place. 4 His children are far from safety, and they are crushed in the gate, and there is none to deliver them. 5 Whose harvest the hungry devour, and take it even out of the thorns, and the thief swallows up their substance.
  • Job 6:21 : 21 For now you are nothing; you see my downfall and are afraid.
  • Job 8:3-4 : 3 Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice? 4 If your children have sinned against Him, and He has cast them away for their transgression;
  • Ezek 34:4 : 4 The diseased you have not strengthened, nor have you healed that which was sick, nor have you bound up that which was broken, nor have you brought back that which was driven away, nor have you sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty you have ruled them.
  • Hos 5:13 : 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah saw his wound, then Ephraim went to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet he could not heal you, nor cure you of your wound.
  • Mark 2:17 : 17 When Jesus heard it, he said to them, Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
  • Mark 5:26 : 26 And had suffered many things from many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
  • Jer 23:32 : 32 Behold, I am against those who prophesy false dreams, says the LORD, and who tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their recklessness. Yet I did not send them or command them; therefore they shall not profit this people at all, says the LORD.
  • Jer 30:13 : 13 There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up; you have no healing medicines.
  • Jer 6:14 : 14 They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.