Job 13:8
Will ye accept his person? or will ye contende for God?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
In Context
7Will ye speake wickedly for Gods defence, and talke deceitfully for his cause?
9Is it well that he shoulde seeke of you? will you make a lye for him, as one lyeth for a man?
Cross References
Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do euil, neither agree in a controuersie to decline after many and ouerthrowe the trueth.
Job 32:21I will not now accept the person of man, neyther will I giue titles to man.
Proverbs 24:23ALSO THESE THINGS PERTEINE TO THE WISE, It is not good to haue respect of any person in iudgement.
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 →