You, however, smear me with lies;(A)
    you are worthless physicians,(B) all of you!(C)

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69 Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies,(A)
    I keep your precepts with all my heart.

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22 Is there no balm in Gilead?(A)
    Is there no physician(B) there?
Why then is there no healing(C)
    for the wound of my people?

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14 They dress the wound of my people
    as though it were not serious.
‘Peace, peace,’ they say,
    when there is no peace.(A)

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26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse.

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17 On hearing this, Jesus said to them, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”(A)

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13 “When Ephraim(A) saw his sickness,
    and Judah his sores,
then Ephraim turned to Assyria,(B)
    and sent to the great king for help.(C)
But he is not able to cure(D) you,
    not able to heal your sores.(E)

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You have not strengthened the weak or healed(A) the sick or bound up(B) the injured. You have not brought back the strays or searched for the lost. You have ruled them harshly and brutally.(C)

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11 “Go up to Gilead and get balm,(A)
    Virgin(B) Daughter Egypt.
But you try many medicines in vain;
    there is no healing(C) for you.

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13 There is no one to plead your cause,(A)
    no remedy for your sore,
    no healing(B) for you.

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32 Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,(A)” declares the Lord. “They tell them and lead my people astray(B) with their reckless lies,(C) yet I did not send(D) or appoint them. They do not benefit(E) these people in the least,” declares the Lord.

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“I have heard many things like these;
    you are miserable comforters,(A) all of you!(B)

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You demanded security(A) from your relatives for no reason;(B)
    you stripped people of their clothing, leaving them naked.(C)
You gave no water(D) to the weary
    and you withheld food from the hungry,(E)
though you were a powerful man, owning land(F)
    an honored man,(G) living on it.(H)
And you sent widows(I) away empty-handed(J)
    and broke the strength of the fatherless.(K)
10 That is why snares(L) are all around you,(M)
    why sudden peril terrifies you,(N)
11 why it is so dark(O) you cannot see,
    and why a flood of water covers you.(P)

12 “Is not God in the heights of heaven?(Q)
    And see how lofty are the highest stars!
13 Yet you say, ‘What does God know?(R)
    Does he judge through such darkness?(S)
14 Thick clouds(T) veil him, so he does not see us(U)
    as he goes about in the vaulted heavens.’(V)
15 Will you keep to the old path
    that the wicked(W) have trod?(X)
16 They were carried off before their time,(Y)
    their foundations(Z) washed away by a flood.(AA)
17 They said to God, ‘Leave us alone!
    What can the Almighty do to us?’(AB)
18 Yet it was he who filled their houses with good things,(AC)
    so I stand aloof from the plans of the wicked.(AD)
19 The righteous see their ruin and rejoice;(AE)
    the innocent mock(AF) them, saying,
20 ‘Surely our foes are destroyed,(AG)
    and fire(AH) devours their wealth.’

21 “Submit to God and be at peace(AI) with him;(AJ)
    in this way prosperity will come to you.(AK)
22 Accept instruction from his mouth(AL)
    and lay up his words(AM) in your heart.(AN)
23 If you return(AO) to the Almighty, you will be restored:(AP)
    If you remove wickedness far from your tent(AQ)
24 and assign your nuggets(AR) to the dust,
    your gold(AS) of Ophir(AT) to the rocks in the ravines,(AU)
25 then the Almighty will be your gold,(AV)
    the choicest silver for you.(AW)
26 Surely then you will find delight in the Almighty(AX)
    and will lift up your face(AY) to God.(AZ)
27 You will pray to him,(BA) and he will hear you,(BB)
    and you will fulfill your vows.(BC)
28 What you decide on will be done,(BD)
    and light(BE) will shine on your ways.(BF)
29 When people are brought low(BG) and you say, ‘Lift them up!’
    then he will save the downcast.(BH)
30 He will deliver even one who is not innocent,(BI)
    who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.”(BJ)

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27 “I know full well what you are thinking,
    the schemes by which you would wrong me.
28 You say, ‘Where now is the house of the great,(A)
    the tents where the wicked lived?’(B)
29 Have you never questioned those who travel?
    Have you paid no regard to their accounts—
30 that the wicked are spared from the day of calamity,(C)
    that they are delivered from[a] the day of wrath?(D)
31 Who denounces their conduct to their face?
    Who repays them for what they have done?(E)
32 They are carried to the grave,
    and watch is kept over their tombs.(F)
33 The soil in the valley is sweet to them;(G)
    everyone follows after them,
    and a countless throng goes[b] before them.(H)

34 “So how can you console me(I) with your nonsense?
    Nothing is left of your answers but falsehood!”(J)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 21:30 Or wicked are reserved for the day of calamity, / that they are brought forth to
  2. Job 21:33 Or them, / as a countless throng went

21 Now you too have proved to be of no help;
    you see something dreadful and are afraid.(A)

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“Call if you will, but who will answer you?(A)
    To which of the holy ones(B) will you turn?
Resentment(C) kills a fool,
    and envy slays the simple.(D)
I myself have seen(E) a fool taking root,(F)
    but suddenly(G) his house was cursed.(H)
His children(I) are far from safety,(J)
    crushed in court(K) without a defender.(L)
The hungry consume his harvest,(M)
    taking it even from among thorns,
    and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

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“Consider now: Who, being innocent, has ever perished?(A)
    Where were the upright ever destroyed?(B)
As I have observed,(C) those who plow evil(D)
    and those who sow trouble reap it.(E)
At the breath of God(F) they perish;
    at the blast of his anger they are no more.(G)
10 The lions may roar(H) and growl,
    yet the teeth of the great lions(I) are broken.(J)
11 The lion perishes for lack of prey,(K)
    and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.(L)

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“The lamp of a wicked man is snuffed out;(A)
    the flame of his fire stops burning.(B)
The light in his tent(C) becomes dark;(D)
    the lamp beside him goes out.(E)
The vigor(F) of his step is weakened;(G)
    his own schemes(H) throw him down.(I)
His feet thrust him into a net;(J)
    he wanders into its mesh.
A trap seizes him by the heel;
    a snare(K) holds him fast.(L)
10 A noose(M) is hidden for him on the ground;
    a trap(N) lies in his path.(O)
11 Terrors(P) startle him on every side(Q)
    and dog(R) his every step.
12 Calamity(S) is hungry(T) for him;
    disaster(U) is ready for him when he falls.(V)
13 It eats away parts of his skin;(W)
    death’s firstborn devours his limbs.(X)
14 He is torn from the security of his tent(Y)
    and marched off to the king(Z) of terrors.(AA)
15 Fire resides[a] in his tent;(AB)
    burning sulfur(AC) is scattered over his dwelling.
16 His roots dry up below(AD)
    and his branches wither above.(AE)
17 The memory of him perishes from the earth;(AF)
    he has no name(AG) in the land.(AH)
18 He is driven from light into the realm of darkness(AI)
    and is banished(AJ) from the world.(AK)
19 He has no offspring(AL) or descendants(AM) among his people,
    no survivor(AN) where once he lived.(AO)
20 People of the west are appalled(AP) at his fate;(AQ)
    those of the east are seized with horror.
21 Surely such is the dwelling(AR) of an evil man;(AS)
    such is the place(AT) of one who does not know God.”(AU)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 18:15 Or Nothing he had remains

Does God pervert justice?(A)
    Does the Almighty pervert what is right?(B)
When your children sinned against him,
    he gave them over to the penalty of their sin.(C)

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