The proud have forged a lie against me: {but} I will keep thy precepts with {my} whole heart.

{Is there} no balm in Gilead; {is there} no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? {recovered: Heb. gone up?}

Behold, I {am} against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the LORD, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the LORD.

They have healed also the hurt {of the daughter} of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when {there is} no peace. {hurt: Heb. bruise, or, breach}

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}

When Ephraim saw his sickness, and Judah {saw} his wound, then went Ephraim to the Assyrian, and sent to king Jareb: yet could he not heal you, nor cure you of your wound. {king Jareb: or, the king of Jareb: or, the king that should plead}

{There is} none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines. {that...: Heb. for binding up, or, pressing}

And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

Go up into Gilead, and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt: in vain shalt thou use many medicines; {for} thou shalt not be cured. {thou shalt...: Heb. no cure shall be unto thee}

The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up {that which was} broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

When Jesus heard {it}, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices {which} ye wrongfully imagine against me.

For now ye are nothing; ye see {my} casting down, and are afraid. {ye are...: or, ye are like to them: Heb. to it} {nothing: Heb. not}

For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing. {the naked...: Heb. the clothes of the naked}

Remember, I pray thee, who {ever} perished, being innocent? or where were the righteous cut off?

Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn? {turn: or, look?}

Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

The proud have forged a lie against me: {but} I will keep thy precepts with {my} whole heart.

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

I have heard many such things: miserable comforters {are} ye all. {miserable: or, troublesome}

How then comfort ye me in vain, seeing in your answers there remaineth falsehood? {falsehood: Heb. transgression?}

Now therefore be content, look upon me; for {it is} evident unto you if I lie. {evident...: Heb. before your face}

Behold, all ye yourselves have seen {it}; why then are ye thus altogether vain?

For truly my words {shall} not {be} false: he that is perfect in knowledge {is} with thee.

And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease {was} exceeding {great}: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

For now ye are nothing; ye see {my} casting down, and are afraid. {ye are...: or, ye are like to them: Heb. to it} {nothing: Heb. not}

Should thy lies make men hold their peace? and when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? {lies: or, devices}

Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:

{Now} the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: {and} the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:

For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because {there was} no shepherd. {idols: Heb. teraphims} {were...: or, answered that, etc}

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him.

Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What {is that} to us? see thou {to that}.