Job 13:8
Will ye show Him favour? Will ye contend for God?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
In Context
7Will ye speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him?
9Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?
Cross References
Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou bear witness in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to pervert justice;
Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, respect any man's person; neither will I give flattering titles unto any man.
Proverbs 24:23These also are sayings of the wise. To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.
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 →