Job 13:7
Whether God hath need to your leasing, that ye speak guileful things for him? (Hath God a need for your lies, so that ye speak these guileful things for him?)
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
In Context
Cross References
2 Kings 10:18Therefore Jehu gathered together all the people (or And then Jehu gathered together all the people), and said to them, Ahab worshipped Baal a little, but I shall worship him more.
Job 11:2Whether he, that speaketh many things, shall not also hear? either a man full of words shall be made just? (Shall he, who saith many things, not also listen? or is a man so full of words always right, or correct?)
Job 27:4my lips shall not speak wickedness, neither my tongue shall think a leasing (nor shall my tongue tell a lie).
Job 36:4For verily my words be without leasing, and by them perfect knowing shall be proved to thee. (For truly my words be without any lying, and by them sound reasoning shall be shown to thee.)
Romans 3:5But if our wickedness commend the rightwiseness of God, what shall we say? Whether God is wicked, that bringeth in wrath? After man I say.
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 →