Job 13:8

Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

In Context

7Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

9Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed ? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings ?

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Cross References

Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.

Job 32:21I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man.

Proverbs 24:23These things also to the wise: It is not good to have respect to 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 →

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