Job 13:4

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Job 13:2–6 · Berean Standard Bible

2 What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.

3 Yet I desire to speak to the Almighty and argue my case before God.

4 You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.

5 If only you would remain silent; for that would be your wisdom!

6 Hear now my argument, and listen to the plea of my lips.

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Job 4:7

Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?

Job 4:8

As I have observed, those who plow iniquity and those who sow trouble reap the same.

Job 4:9

By the breath of God they perish, and by the blast of His anger they are consumed.

Job 4:10

The lion may roar, and the fierce lion may growl, yet the teeth of the young lions are broken.

Job 4:11

The old lion perishes for lack of prey, and the cubs of the lioness are scattered.

Job 5:1

“Call out if you please, but who will answer? To which of the holy ones will you turn?

Job 5:2

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Job 5:3

I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.

Job 5:4

His sons are far from safety, crushed in court without a defender.

Job 5:5

The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Job 8:3

Does God pervert justice? Does the Almighty pervert what is right?

Job 8:4

When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.

Job 18:5

Indeed, the lamp of the wicked is extinguished; the flame of his fire does not glow.

Job 18:6

The light in his tent grows dark, and the lamp beside him goes out.

Job 18:7

His vigorous stride is shortened, and his own schemes trip him up.

Job 18:8

For his own feet lead him into a net, and he wanders into its mesh.

Job 18:9

A trap seizes his heel; a snare grips him.

Job 18:10

A noose is hidden in the ground, and a trap lies in his path.

Job 18:11

Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.

Job 18:12

His strength is depleted, and calamity is ready at his side.

Job 18:13

It devours patches of his skin; the firstborn of death devours his limbs.

Job 18:14

He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.

Job 18:15

Fire resides in his tent; burning sulfur rains down on his dwelling.

Job 18:16

The roots beneath him dry up, and the branches above him wither away.

Job 18:17

The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

Job 18:18

He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.

Job 18:19

He has no offspring or posterity among his people, no survivor where he once lived.

Job 18:20

Those in the west are appalled at his fate, while those in the east tremble in horror.

Job 18:21

Surely such is the dwelling of the wicked and the place of one who does not know God.”

Job 21:27

Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.

Job 21:28

For you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’

Job 21:29

Have you never asked those who travel the roads? Do you not accept their reports?

Job 21:30

Indeed, the evil man is spared from the day of calamity, delivered from the day of wrath.

Job 21:31

Who denounces his behavior to his face? Who repays him for what he has done?

Job 21:32

He is carried to the grave, and watch is kept over his tomb.

Job 21:33

The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.

Job 21:34

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

Job 22:6

For you needlessly demanded security from your brothers and deprived the naked of their clothing.

Job 22:7

You gave no water to the weary and withheld food from the famished,

Job 22:8

while the land belonged to a mighty man, and a man of honor lived on it.

Job 22:9

You sent widows away empty-handed, and the strength of the fatherless was crushed.

Job 22:10

Therefore snares surround you, and sudden peril terrifies you;

Job 22:11

it is so dark you cannot see, and a flood of water covers you.

Job 22:12

Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!

Job 22:13

Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?

Job 22:14

Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’

Job 22:15

Will you stay on the ancient path that wicked men have trod?

Job 22:16

They were snatched away before their time, and their foundations were swept away by a flood.

Job 22:17

They said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’

Job 22:18

But it was He who filled their houses with good things; so I stay far from the counsel of the wicked.

Job 22:19

The righteous see it and are glad; the innocent mock them:

Job 22:20

‘Surely our foes are destroyed, and fire has consumed their excess.’

Job 22:21

Reconcile now and be at peace with Him; thereby good will come to you.

Job 22:22

Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.

Job 22:23

If you return to the Almighty, you will be restored. If you remove injustice from your tents

Job 22:24

and consign your gold to the dust and the gold of Ophir to the stones of the ravines,

Job 22:25

then the Almighty will be your gold and the finest silver for you.

Job 22:26

Surely then you will delight in the Almighty and lift up your face to God.

Job 22:27

You will pray to Him, and He will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows.

Job 22:28

Your decisions will be carried out, and light will shine on your ways.

Job 22:29

When men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.

Job 22:30

He will deliver even one who is not innocent, rescuing him through the cleanness of your hands.”

Exodus 20:16

You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

Psalms 119:69

Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.

Job 6:21

For now you are of no help; you see terror, and you are afraid.

Job 16:2

“I have heard many things like these; miserable comforters are you all.

Jeremiah 6:14

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.

Jeremiah 8:22

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?

Jeremiah 30:13

There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you.

Jeremiah 46:11

Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.

Ezekiel 34:4

You have not strengthened the weak, healed the sick, bound up the injured, brought back the strays, or searched for the lost. Instead, you have ruled them with violence and cruelty.

Hosea 5:13

When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah his wound, then Ephraim turned to Assyria and sent to the great king. But he cannot cure you or heal your wound.

Mark 2:17

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

Mark 5:26

She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse.