Tree of Life Version
Job 13:7
7Will you speak unjustly on God’s behalf? Will you 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 keep completely silent! For you, that would be wisdom. 6Hear now my argument; listen to the contentions of my lips. Will you speak unjustly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for Him? 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 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 4:7Reflect now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were the upright destroyed?
- Job 11:2“Should so many words go unanswered? Is a man justified by his lips?
- Job 17:5If anyone denounces his friends for profit the eyes of his children will fail.
- Job 32:21I will show partiality to no one, nor will I flatter anyone;
- Job 36:4For truly, my words are not false; One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
- John 16:2They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
- Romans 3:5But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? God is not unrighteous to inflict wrath, is He? (I am speaking in human terms.)
- 2 Corinthians 4:2Instead, we renounced the hidden shameful ways—not walking in deception or distorting the word of God, but commending ourselves before God to everyone’s conscience by the open proclamation 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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