Job 32:21
Please do not let me accept the face of any, || Nor give flattering titles to man,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
In Context
20I speak, and there is refreshment to me, || I open my lips and answer.
22For I have not known to give flattering titles, || My Maker takes me away in a little.”
Cross References
Leviticus 19:15You do not do perversity in judgment; you do not lift up the face of the poor, nor honor the face of the great; you judge your fellow in righteousness.
Deuteronomy 16:19You do not turn aside judgment; you do not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
2 Samuel 14:20Your servant Joab has done this thing in order to bring around the appearance of the thing, and my lord [is] wise, according to the wisdom of a messenger of God, to know all that [is] in the land.”
Job 13:10He surely reproves you, if you accept faces in secret.
Job 34:19That has not accepted the person of princes, || Nor has known the rich before the poor, || For all of them [are] a work of His hands.
Proverbs 24:23These are also for the wise: [It] is not good to discern faces in judgment.
Matthew Henry on Job 32:16-22
15 They were amazed, they answered no more: they left off speaking. 16 When I had waited, (for they spake not, but stood still, and answered no more;) 17 I said, I will answer also my part, I also will show mine opinion. 18 For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me. 19 Behold, my belly is as wine which hath no vent; it is ready to burst like new bottles. 20 I will speak, that I may be refreshed: I will open my lips and answer. 21 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me… Read the whole commentary →