Job 13:8
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
World Messianic Bible
In The King James Version
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
In Context
7Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?
9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
Cross References
Exodus 23:2“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
Job 32:21Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
Proverbs 24:23These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality 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 →