Job 13:8
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?”
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BSBPD
“Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 13:8 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 23:2You shall not follow the crowd in wrongdoing. When you testify in a lawsuit, do not pervert justice by siding with the crowd.
- Leviticus 19:15You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
- Job 32:21I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
- Job 34:19who is not partial to princes and does not favor rich over poor? For they are all the work of His hands.
- Proverbs 24:23These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
- Malachi 2:9“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).
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