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Job 13:8 KJV
Job · chapter 13 · verse 8
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?Job 13:8 · King James Version
Job 13:8 in context
6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- contendrîybproperly, to tossH7378 →
- acceptnâsâʼto lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relativeH5375 →
- personpânîymthe faceH6440 →
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Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends. I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them, Job 13:1, Job 13:2.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12