New King James Version
Job 13:7
7Will you speak wickedly for God, And talk 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 Living Translation (NLT)“Are you defending God with lies? Do you make your dishonest arguments for his sake?
Context of Job 13:7
5Oh, that you would be silent, And it would be your wisdom! 6Now hear my reasoning, And heed the pleadings of my lips. Will you speak wickedly for God, And talk deceitfully for Him? 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?
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 4:7“Remember now, who ever perished being innocent? Or where were the upright ever cut off?
- Job 11:2“Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be vindicated?
- Job 17:5He who speaks flattery to his friends, Even the eyes of his children will fail.
- Job 32:21Let me not, I pray, show partiality to anyone; Nor let me flatter any man.
- Job 36:4For truly my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
- John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues; yes, the time is coming that whoever kills you will think that he offers God service.
- Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust who inflicts wrath? (I speak as a man.)
- 2 Corinthians 4:2But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness nor handling the word of God deceitfully, but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’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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