Job 13:8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Job 13:8 in other translations
| BSB | Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense? |
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| WEB | Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God? |
| ASV | Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God? |
| YLT | His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive? |
| DARBY | Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
| BBE | Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters? |
| Webster | Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? |
What does Job 13:8 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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…
Job 13:8 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 13:8
- Proverbs 24:23
These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
- Exodus 23:2-3
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: Neither shalt thou countenance a poor man in his cause.
- Job 32:21
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
- Malachi 2:9
Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
- Job 34:19
How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.
- Leviticus 19:15
Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.
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Context
- Job 13:7
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
- Job 13:8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
- Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Job 13:8 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Habéis de hacer acepción de su persona? ¿habéis de pleitear vosotros por Dios? |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ferez-vous acception de sa personne? Plaiderez-vous pour ✶Dieu? |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wollt ihr für ihn Partei nehmen? oder wollt ihr für Gott rechten? |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | numquid faciem ejus accipitis, et pro Deo judicare nitimini? |