Job 13:4

As for you, you do not allow people to know the truth about me, like someone covers up a bad surface of a wall with whitewash [MET]. You are all like doctors [MET] that give people useless medicines.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.

In Context

3But I would like to speak to Almighty God, not to you; I would like to argue with him and prove that I ◄am innocent/have not done things that are wrong►.

5I wish/desire that you would be silent; that would be the wisest thing that you could do.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:16Do not falsely accuse anyone of committing a crime.

Job 5:1“Job, it is okay that you continue to cry out for someone to help you, but I am certain that [RHQ] no angel will come to help you!

Job 6:20But they do not find any, so they are very disappointed.

Job 8:3Almighty God certainly never does [RHQ] what is unfair/unjust. He always does [LIT] what is right/fair.

Job 18:5“What will happen is that the lives of wicked people like you end as quickly as we can put out a light or extinguish the flame of a fire.

Job 22:6You must have lent money to others and wrongly forced them to give you things to guarantee that they would pay that money back to you; you must have taken all their clothes and left them with nothing to wear.

Matthew Henry on Job 13:2-13

Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for… Read the whole commentary →

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