Job 13:8
Will all of you accept his person? will all of you contend for God?
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
In Context
7Will all of you speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do all of you so mock him?
Cross References
Exodus 23:2You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to shift judgment:
Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
Proverbs 24:23These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
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 →