New International Version
Job 13:10
10He would surely call you to account if you secretly showed partiality.
Job 13:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He will surely rebuke you If you secretly show partiality.
- New Living Translation (NLT)No, you will be in trouble with him if you secretly slant your testimony in his favor.
Context of Job 13:10
8Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God? 9Would it turn out well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive a mortal? He would surely call you to account if you secretly showed partiality. 11Would not his splendor terrify you? Would not the dread of him fall on you? 12Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.
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הוֹכֵ֣חַ יוֹכִ֣יחַ אֶתְכֶ֑ם אִם־בַּ֝סֵּ֗תֶר פָּנִ֥ים תִּשָּׂאֽוּן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:10
- Job 42:7After the Lord had said these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
- Psalms 50:21When you did these things and I kept silent, you thought I was exactly like you. But I now arraign you and set my accusations before you.
- Psalms 82:2“How long will you defend the unjust and show partiality to the wicked?
- James 2:9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as lawbreakers.
Commentaries on Job 13:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10He will surely reprove you - You may expect, not only his disapprobation, but his hot displeasure.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons - If you show partiality, you will incur his disapprobation. This seems to have much era proverbial cast, and to mean that under no possible circumstances was it right to show partiality. No matter for whom it may be done, it will be displeasing to God. Even if it be in favor of the righteous, the widow, the fatherless, or of himself, if there is not a disposition to judge according to truth and…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. 1010. 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.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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