Job 13:8
Do you accept His face, if you strive for God?
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
In Context
7Do you speak perverseness for God? And do you speak deceit for Him?
9Is [it] good that He searches you, || If, as one mocks at a man, you mock at Him?
Cross References
Exodus 23:2You are not after many to [do] evil, nor do you testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;
Job 32:21Please do not let me accept the face of any, || Nor give flattering titles to man,
Proverbs 24:23These are also for the wise: [It] is not good to discern faces 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 →