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Job 13:7
7Will you speak what is unjust for God, And speak what is deceitful for Him?
Job 13:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
- New International Version (NIV)Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Will you speak wickedly for God, And talk deceitfully for Him?
Context of Job 13:7
5Oh, that you would be completely silent, And that silence would be your wisdom! 6Please hear my argument And listen to the pleadings of my lips. Will you speak what is unjust for God, And speak what is deceitful for Him? 8Will you show partiality for Him [and be unjust to me so that you may gain favor with Him]? Will you contend and plead for God? 9Will it be well for you when He investigates you [and your tactics against me]? Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?
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הַ֭לְאֵל תְּדַבְּר֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה וְ֝ל֗וֹ תְּֽדַבְּר֥וּ רְמִיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:7
- Job 4:7“Remember now, who, being innocent, ever perished? Or where [and in what circumstances] were those upright and in right standing with God destroyed?
- Job 11:2“Shall a multitude of words not be answered? And should a talkative man [making such a long-winded defense] be acquitted?
- Job 17:5He who denounces and informs against his friends for a share of the spoil, The eyes of his children will also languish and fail.
- Job 32:21I will not [I warn you] be partial to any man [that is, let my respect for you mitigate what I say]; Nor flatter any man.
- Job 36:4For truly my words are not false; He who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
- John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues and make you outcasts. And a time is coming when whoever kills you will think that he is offering service to God.
- Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not wrong to inflict His wrath [on us], is He? (I am speaking in purely human terms.)
- 2 Corinthians 4:2But we have renounced the disgraceful things hidden because of shame; not walking in trickery or adulterating the word of God, but by stating the truth [openly and plainly], we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
Commentaries on Job 13:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Will ye speak wickedly for God? - In order to support your own cause, in contradiction to the evidence which the whole of my life bears to the uprightness of my heart, will ye continue to assert that God could not thus afflict me, unless flagrant iniquity were found in my ways; for it is on this ground alone that ye pretend to vindicate the providence of God. Thus ye tell lies for God's sake, and thus ye wickedly contend for your Maker.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Will ye speak wickedly for God? - That is, will you maintain unjust principles with a view to honor or to vindicate God? Job refers doubtless to the positions which they had defended in regard to the divine administration - principles which he regarded as unjust, though they had employed them professedly in vindicating God. The sense is, that unjust principles ought not to be advanced to vindicate God. The great cause of truth and justice should always be…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-10Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf: False witnesses were not allowed, even when speaking for God (Exodus 20:16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. deceitfully--use fallacies to vindicate God in His dealings; as if the end justified the means. Their "deceitfulness" for God, against Job, was that they asserted he was a sinner, because he was a sufferer.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 13
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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