4But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
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The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.
Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.
I have heard many such things: miserable comforters are ye all.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends. I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them, Job 13:1 , 2 . They compelled him, as the Corinthians did Paul, to commend himself and his own knowledge, yet not in a way of self-applause, but of self-justification. All he had before said his eye…
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