But ye {are} forgers of lies, ye {are} all physicians of no value.

How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in pieces with words?

Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? {full...: Heb. of lips}

How hast thou helped {him that is} without power? {how} savest thou the arm {that hath} no strength?

For they persecute {him} whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded. {those...: Heb. thy wounded}

The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there {any} taste in the white of an egg?

How forcible are right words! but what doth your arguing reprove?

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

Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked {for some} to take pity, but {there was} none; and for comforters, but I found none. {to take...: Heb. to lament with me}

But ye {are} forgers of lies, ye {are} all physicians of no value.

And Haman told Zeresh his wife and all his friends every {thing} that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai {be} of the seed of the Jews, before whom thou hast begun to fall, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

How long {will it be ere} ye make an end of words? mark, and afterwards we will speak.

Hear diligently my speech, and let this be your consolations.

Give us help from trouble: for vain {is} the help of man.

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

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.

Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there {any} taste in the white of an egg?

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