Job 13 · Verse 10

Job 13:10

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Job 13:10, King James Version

Job 13:10 in other translations

BSBSurely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
WEBHe will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
ASVHe will surely reprove you, If ye do secretly show partiality.
YLTHe doth surely reprove you, if in secret ye accept faces.
DARBYHe will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
BBEHe will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.
WebsterHe will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

What does Job 13:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. If ye do, though secretly, act partially. (See on Job 13:8; Psa 82:1, 2). God can successfully vindicate His acts, and needs no fallacious argument of man.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 He will surely reprove you - You may expect, not only his disapprobation, but his hot displeasure.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 13:1-12

With self-preference, Job declared that he needed not to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves, and lower their brethren, more than is fit. When dismayed or distressed with the fear of wrath, the force of temptation, or the weight of affliction, we should apply to the Physician of our souls, who never rejects any, never prescribes amiss, and never leaves any case uncured. To Him we…

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Job 13:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הוֹכֵ֣חַho.Khe.achcertainly <to rebuke>H3198
יוֹכִ֣יחַyo.Khi.achhe will rebukeH3198
אֶתְכֶ֑ם'et.Khem<obj.> youH853
אִם\־'im-ifH518
בַּ֝סֵּ֗תֶרba.Se.terin <the> secrecyH5643
פָּנִ֥יםpa.NimfacesH6440
תִּשָּׂאֽוּן\׃ti.sa.'Unyou will lift up !H5375

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 13:10

  • James 2:9

    But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

  • Psalms 50:21-22

    These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes. Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.

  • Psalms 82:2

    How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

  • Job 42:7-8

    And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath. Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you: for him will I accept: lest I deal with you after your folly, in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right, like my servant Job.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
reprove.
42:7,8; Ps 50:21,22; 82:2; Jas 2:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 13:9

    Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

  • Job 13:10

    He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

  • Job 13:11

    Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

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Job 13:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
El os reprochará de seguro, si solapadamente hacéis acepción de personas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Certainement il vous reprendra, si en secret vous faites acception de personnes.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Strafen wird er euch, wenn ihr im Geheimen die Person ansehet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Ipse vos arguet, quoniam in abscondito faciem ejus accipitis.