Job 13:10

8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?

12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
KJV
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
WEB
He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
ASV
He will surely reprove you If ye do secretly show partiality.
DARBY
He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
BLB
He will surely rebuke you⁺, if in secrecy you⁺ were lifting faces.
ÅB
Han vil tukte dere, om dere i lønndom tar parti for ham.
OTB
Han vil sikkert korrigere dere
Hvis dere i hemmelighet viser favorisering.
B1930
Han vil tukte eder, om I i lønndom tar parti for ham.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • James 2:9

    But if ye have respect to persons, ye commit sin, and are convinced of the law as transgressors.

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  • Psalms 50:21–22

    These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

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  • Psalms 82:2

    How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the wicked? Selah.

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  • Job 42:7–8

    And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

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