But you, my friends, you deceive me like streams that go dry when no rain comes.

You cover up your ignorance with lies; you are like doctors who can't heal anyone.

Human beings are all like a puff of breath; great and small alike are worthless. Put them on the scales, and they weigh nothing; they are lighter than a mere breath.

Put no more confidence in mortals. What are they worth?

The LORD says, "I will condemn those who turn away from me and put their trust in human beings, in the strength of mortals.

He is like a bush in the desert, which grows in the dry wasteland, on salty ground where nothing else grows. Nothing good ever happens to him.

Three of Job's friends were Eliphaz, from the city of Teman, Bildad, from the land of Shuah, and Zophar, from the land of Naamah. When they heard how much Job had been suffering, they decided to go and comfort him.

Then they sat there on the ground with him for seven days and nights without saying a word, because they saw how much he was suffering.

My friends and neighbors will not come near me, because of my sores; even my family keeps away from me.

Even the relatives of a poor person have no use for him; no wonder he has no friends. No matter how hard he tries, he cannot win any.

Foreigners living there said, 'We tried to help Babylonia, but it was too late. Let's leave now and go back home. God has punished Babylonia with all his might and has destroyed it completely.' "

Then Jesus said to them, "This very night all of you will run away and leave me, for the scripture says, 'God will kill the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.'

But all this has happened in order to make come true what the prophets wrote in the Scriptures." Then all the disciples left him and ran away.

No one stood by me the first time I defended myself; all deserted me. May God not count it against them!

The kings of the earth who took part in her immorality and lust will cry and weep over the city when they see the smoke from the flames that consume her.

They stand a long way off, because they are afraid of sharing in her suffering. They say, "How terrible! How awful! This great and mighty city Babylon! In just one hour you have been punished!"

And in one hour she has lost all this wealth!" All the ships' captains and passengers, the sailors and all others who earn their living on the sea, stood a long way off,

and cried out as they saw the smoke from the flames that consumed her: "There never has been another city like this great city!"