Job 13:4
You, however, smear with lies; you are all worthless physicians.
BSB
ASV
But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
KJV
But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value.
Ye are forgers of lies - Ye frame deceitful arguments: ye reason sophistically, and pervert truth and justice, in order to support your cause. Physicians of no value - Ye are as feeble in your reasonings as ye are inefficient in your skill. Ye can neither heal the wound of my mind, nor the disease of my body. In ancient times every wise man professed skill in the healing art, and probably Job’s friends had tried their skill on his body as well as on his mind.
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Jeremiah 8:22Is there no balm in Gilead? Is no physician there? Why then has the health of the daughter of my people not been restored?
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Suddenly Babylon has fallen and been shattered. Wail for her; get her balm for her pain; perhaps she can be healed.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Go up to Gilead for balm, O Virgin Daughter of Egypt! In vain you try many remedies, but for you there is no healing.
And as they sat down to eat a meal, they looked up and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites coming from Gilead. Their camels were carrying spices, balm, and myrrh on their way down to…
For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
including a woman who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. She had spent all her money on physicians, but no one was able to heal her.
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Jeremiah 6:14They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
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Because they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,
They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
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Psalms 119:69Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
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Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.