Job 13:8

Will ye show him undue favor, when ye contend for God?

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Will ye speak wrong things for God? and will ye speak for him deceitfully?

9Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one overreacheth another mortal, do ye expect to overreach him?

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Cross References

Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause, to incline after many, to wrest judgment.

Job 32:21On no account will I show undue favor to any man, and to no son of earth will I give flattering titles.

Proverbs 24:23These things also are for 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 →

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