King James Version
What Does Job 13:4 Mean?
“But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.”
Context
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.
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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.
Commentary
Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers(4) **Ye are forgers of lies.**—He now retorts upon his friends in terms not more deferential than their own, and calls them scrapers together, or patchers up, of falsehood, and physicians who are powerless to heal, or even to understand the case. He feels that they have failed miserably and utterly to understand *him.*
Charles John Ellicott (1819–1905). Public Domain.
Historical Context
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Theological Significance
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