Ayub 13:4

13:4 But you, however, are inventors of lies; ¹ 

all of you are worthless physicians! ² 

Mazmur 69:26

69:26 For they harass ³  the one whom you discipline; ⁴ 

they spread the news about the suffering of those whom you punish. ⁵ 

Filipi 1:16

1:16 The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.

[13:4]  ¹ tn The טֹפְלֵי־שָׁקֶר (tofÿle shaqer) are “plasterers of lies” (Ps 119:69). The verb means “to coat, smear, plaster.” The idea is that of imputing something that is not true. Job is saying that his friends are inventors of lies. The LXX was influenced by the next line and came up with “false physicians.”

[13:4]  ² tn The literal rendering of the construct would be “healers of worthlessness.” Ewald and Dillmann translated it “patchers” based on a meaning in Arabic and Ethiopic; this would give the idea “botchers.” But it makes equally good sense to take “healers” as the meaning, for Job’s friends came to minister comfort and restoration to him – but they failed. See P. Humbert, “Maladie et medicine dans l’AT,” RHPR 44 (1964): 1-29.

[69:26]  ³ tn Or “persecute”; Heb “chase.”

[69:26]  ⁴ tn Heb “for you, the one whom you strike, they chase.”

[69:26]  ⁵ tn Heb “they announce the pain of your wounded ones” (i.e., “the ones whom you wounded,” as the parallel line makes clear).

[69:26]  sn The psalmist is innocent of the false charges made by his enemies (v. 4), but he is also aware of his sinfulness (v. 5) and admits that he experiences divine discipline (v. 26) despite his devotion to God (v. 9). Here he laments that his enemies take advantage of such divine discipline by harassing and slandering him. They “kick him while he’s down,” as the expression goes.