Job 13:7
Do you think you can tell lies to defend God? Are you talking deceitfully on his behalf?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
In Context
6Listen to my argument and pay attention to what I have to say.
8Or are you wanting to show God favoritism? Are you going to argue God's case for him?
Cross References
2 Kings 10:18Jehu had all the people gather together and told them, “Ahab worshiped Baal a little, but Jehu will worship him a lot.
Job 11:2“So many words should be answered, shouldn't they? Or is a person proved right by doing a lot of talking?
Job 27:4my lips will never speak lies, my tongue will never be dishonest.
Job 36:4I assure you that what I'm saying are not lies, for I am a man whose knowledge is of the highest order.
Romans 3:5But if the fact that we're wrong helps to show that God is right, what should we conclude? That God is wrong to pronounce judgment on us? (I'm talking from a human perspective here.)
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 →