Job 13:8 · KJV
“Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?”
— Job 13:8
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye {so} mock him?
Job 13 — Context
Hear 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.
Cross References
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}: {speak: Heb. answer}
Proverbs 24:23
These {things} also {belong} to the wise. {It is} not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
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.
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.
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. {have been...: or, lifted up the face against: Heb. accepted faces}
Job 32:21
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.