New King James Version
Job 13:10
10He will surely rebuke you If you secretly show partiality.
Job 13:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
- New International Version (NIV)He would surely call you to account if you secretly showed partiality.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He will surely rebuke you if in secret you 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 partiality for Him? Will you contend for God? 9Will it be well when He searches you out? Or can you mock Him as one mocks a man? He will surely rebuke you If you secretly show partiality. 11Will not His excellence make you afraid, And the dread of Him fall upon you? 12Your platitudes 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 42:7And so it was, after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, that the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is aroused against you and your two friends, for you have not spoken of Me what is right, as My servant Job has.
- Psalms 50:21These things you have done, and I kept silent; You thought that I was altogether like you; But I will rebuke you, And set them in order before your eyes.
- Psalms 82:2How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? Selah
- James 2:9but if you show partiality, you commit sin, and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
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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