On physicians
1 Honor doctors for their services, since indeed the Lord created them.
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Healing comes from the Most High, and the king will reward them.
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The skill of doctors will make them eminent, and they will be admired in the presence of the great.
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The Lord created medicines out of the earth, and a sensible person won't ignore them.
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Wasn't water made sweet by means of wood so that the Lord's strength might be known?
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And he endowed human beings with skill so that he would be glorified through his marvelous deeds.
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With those medicines, the doctor cures and takes away pain.
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Those who prepare ointments will make a compound out of them, and their work will never be finished, and well-being spreads over the whole world from them.
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My child, when you are sick, don't look around elsewhere, but pray to the Lord, and he will heal you.
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Stay far from error, direct your hands rightly, and cleanse your heart from all sin.
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Offer a sweet-smelling sacrifice and a memorial of fine flour, and pour an offering of oil, using what you can afford.
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And give doctors a place, because the Lord created them also, and don't let them leave you, because you indeed need them.
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There's a time when success is in their hands as well.
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They will also ask the Lord so that he might grant them rest and healing in order to preserve life.
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May those who sin against their creator fall into the hands of a doctor.