Job 13:8

Are you trying to defend him? Are you trying to prove as you would in a court that he is innocent?

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Are you telling lies about me to prove God is just in causing me to suffer? Are you saying what is deceitful in order to benefit him?

9If he looks closely, will he find that everything that you have done is good? Or can you deceive him, like you deceive other people?

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Cross References

Exodus 23:2Do not join a group of people who are planning to do something evil. Do not testify the way the crowd wants you to, if that will prevent the judge from deciding the case justly/fairly.

Job 32:21I will speak fairly, not favoring any of you, and I will not try to flatter anyone.

Proverbs 24:23Here are more things that wise people have said: It is wrong for judges to decide matters unfairly [IDM].

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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