Job 13:8
His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
In Context
7For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?
9Is [it] good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
Cross References
Exodus 23:2'Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause [others] to turn aside;
Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept the face of any, Nor unto man give flattering titles,
Proverbs 24:23These also are for the wise: — To discern 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 →