Job 13:8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
In Context
7Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?
9Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
Cross References
Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow the multitude for evil; neither shalt thou answer in a cause, to go after the multitude to pervert [judgment].
Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person; neither will I give flattery to man.
Proverbs 24:23These things also come from the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Matthew Henry on Job 13:2-13
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for… Read the whole commentary →