Christian Standard Bible
Job 13:7
7Would you testify unjustly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully 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
5If only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom! 6Hear now my argument, and listen to my defense. Would you testify unjustly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for him? 8Would you show partiality to him or argue the case in his defense? 9Would it go well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you would deceive a man?
Read all of Job 13Job 13:7 word by word
הַ֭לְאֵל תְּדַבְּר֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה וְ֝ל֗וֹ תְּֽדַבְּר֥וּ רְמִיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:7
- Job 4:7Consider: Who has perished when he was innocent? Where have the honest been destroyed?
- Job 11:2Should this abundance of words go unanswered and such a talker be acquitted?
- Job 17:5If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
- Job 32:21I will be partial to no one, and I will not give anyone an undeserved title.
- Job 36:4Indeed, my words are not false; one who has complete knowledge is with you.
- John 16:2They will ban you from the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
- Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness highlights God’s righteousness, what are we to say? I am using a human argument: Is God unrighteous to inflict wrath?
- 2 Corinthians 4:2Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful things, not acting deceitfully or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by an open display of the truth.
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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