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Job 13:7
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 ye would be altogether silent! and it would be your wisdom. 6Hear now my defence, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit? 8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 9Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
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הַ֭לְאֵל תְּדַבְּר֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה וְ֝ל֗וֹ תְּֽדַבְּר֥וּ רְמִיָּֽה׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Job 13:7
- Job 4:7Remember, I pray thee, who that was innocent has perished? and where were the upright cut off?
- Job 11:2Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man of much talk be justified?
- Job 17:5He that betrayeth friends for a prey — even the eyes of his children shall fail.
- Job 32:21Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person; neither will I give flattery to man.
- Job 36:4For truly my words shall be no falsehood: one perfect in knowledge is with thee.
- John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;
- Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness commend God's righteousness, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak according to man.
- 2 Corinthians 4:2But we have rejected the hidden things of shame, not walking in deceit, nor falsifying the word of God, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every conscience of men before 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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