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Job 13:8

Integrity

6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

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?

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

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Compare

BSB
Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?
KJV
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
WEB
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
ASV
Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
DARBY
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
BLB
Will you⁺ lift His face, or will you⁺ contend for God?
ÅB
Vil dere ta hans parti, eller vil dere være sakførere for Gud?
OTB
Vil dere vise favorisering for Ham?
Vil dere argumentere for Gud?
B1930
Vil I ta hans parti, eller vil I være sakførere for Gud?

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Proverbs 24:23

    These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

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  • Exodus 23:2–3

    Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment:

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  • Job 32:21

    Let me not, I pray you, accept any man’s person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.

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  • Malachi 2:9

    Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

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  • Job 34:19

    How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

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  • Leviticus 19:15

    Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

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