Job 6:28

The proud have smeared a lie upon me. With my whole heart, I will keep your precepts.

Do you know the workings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge?

Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

“I have heard many such things. You are all miserable comforters!

If not, listen to me. Hold your peace, and I will teach you wisdom.”

My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.

for I give you sound learning. Don’t forsake my law.

For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

There is gold and abundance of rubies, but the lips of knowledge are a rare jewel.

Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then isn’t the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt. You use many medicines in vain. There is no healing for you.

Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.

The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

“You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor.

Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

So they sat down, ate, and drank, both of them together. Then the young lady’s father said to the man, “Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.”

Naaman said, “Be pleased to take two talents.” He urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants; and they carried them before him.

One said, “Please be pleased to go with your servants.” He answered, “I will go.”

In the thirty-ninth year of his reign, Asa was diseased in his feet. His disease was exceedingly great: yet in his disease he didn’t seek Yahweh, but just the physicians.

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.

For now you are nothing. You see a terror, and are afraid.

How forcible are words of uprightness! But your reproof, what does it reprove?

Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, will no man make you ashamed?

I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.

But you are forgers of lies. You are all physicians of no value.

Oh that you would be completely silent! Then you would be wise.

Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

“Should a wise man answer with vain knowledge, and fill himself with the east wind?

You have reproached me ten times. You aren’t ashamed that you attack me.

I have heard the reproof which puts me to shame. The spirit of my understanding answers me.

“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.

So how can you comfort me with nonsense, because in your answers there remains only falsehood?”

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

How have you counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!

surely my lips will not speak unrighteousness, neither will my tongue utter deceit.

Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

My words will utter the uprightness of my heart. That which my lips know they will speak sincerely.

Notwithstanding my right I am considered a liar. My wound is incurable, though I am without disobedience.’

What man is like Job, who drinks scorn like water,

Who goes in company with the workers of iniquity, and walks with wicked men?

For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.

“Who is this who darkens counsel by words without knowledge?

Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

My mouth will speak words of wisdom. My heart will utter understanding.

The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouth of fools gush out folly.

The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so with the heart of fools.

They have healed also the hurt of my people superficially, saying, ‘Peace, peace!’ when there is no peace.

Friends deceive each other, and will not speak the truth. They have taught their tongue to speak lies. They weary themselves commiting iniquity.

Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams,” says Yahweh, “who tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their vain boasting; yet I didn’t send them or command them. They don’t profit this people at all,” says Yahweh.

There is no one to plead your cause, that you may be bound up. You have no healing medicines.

You haven’t strengthened the diseased. You haven’t healed that which was sick. You haven’t bound up that which was broken. You haven’t brought back that which was driven away. You haven’t sought that which was lost, but you have ruled over them with force and with rigor.

The queen by reason of the words of the king and his lords came into the banquet house. The queen spoke and said, “O king, live forever; don’t let your thoughts trouble you, nor let your face be changed.

“When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah his wound, Then Ephraim went to Assyria, and sent to king Jareb: but he is not able to heal you, neither will he cure you of your wound.

For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams. They comfort in vain. Therefore they go their way like sheep. They are oppressed, because there is no shepherd.

When Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are healthy have no need for a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

and had suffered many things by many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was no better, but rather grew worse,

it seemed good to me also, having traced the course of all things accurately from the first, to write to you in order, most excellent Theophilus;

A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any

You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, ‘I don’t know him,’ I would be like you, a liar. But I know him and keep his word.

But Felix, having more exact knowledge concerning the Way, deferred them, saying, “When Lysias, the commanding officer, comes down, I will decide your case.”

For we are not as so many, peddling the word of God. But as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God, we speak in Christ.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

For if I would desire to boast, I will not be foolish; for I will speak the truth. But I refrain, so that no man may think more of me than that which he sees in me or hears from me.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you, always striving for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

and soundness of speech that can’t be condemned, that he who opposes you may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us.

If we say that we haven’t sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

He who believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. He who doesn’t believe God has made him a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given concerning his Son.

saying, “I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood.” But they said, “What is that to us? You see to it.”