Job 13:8

Even, for him, would ye be partial? Or, for GOD, would ye [so] plead?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7Is it, for God, ye would speak perversely? And, for him, would ye speak deceit:

9Would it be well, when he searched you out? Or, as one might jest with a mortal, would ye jest, with him?

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Cross References

Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow multitudes to commit wickedness,—neither shalt thou answer in a quarrel, so as to turn away after multitudes to mislead,

Job 32:21Let me be partial to no man, and, unto no son of earth, give flattering titles,

Proverbs 24:23These things also, concern the wise, To take note of faces 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 →

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