Job 13:7

Will you utter falsehoods upon pretence of pleasing God, or of maintaining God's honour or justice? Doth he need such defences?

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Will ye speak wickedly for God? - That is, will you maintain unjust principles with a view to honor or to vindicate God? Job refers doubtless to...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

Will ye speak (c) wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? (c) He condemns their zeal, who did not have knowledge, nor regarded they to comfo...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Job has shown that he can speak of God's working in the world; the friends, however, offer an apology for God, which He Himself must reject. I am not...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Will ye... ? Figure of speech, Erotesis. App-6.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Will ye speak wickedly for God? - In order to support your own cause, in contradiction...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Deceitfully - use fallacies to vindicate God in His dealings, as if the end jus...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his tr...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Will ye speak wickedly for God? — And now, in these verses, he gives utterance to a sublime truth, which shows how truly he had risen to the true c...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which mu...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Befo...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(1) В¶ Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. (2) What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you....
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Will you speak wickedly for God ?.... As he suggests they did; they spoke for God, and pleaded for the honour of his justice, by asserting he did no...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him? Ver. 7. Will ye speak wickedly for God? ] Ought ye to defend God's justice by unjust...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hear now my reasoning Attend to it, and consider it more seriously than you have done; and hearken to the pleadings of my lips That is, to the ar...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye h...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 L...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 )....
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you...
The Biblical Illustrator

Will ye speak wickedly for God and talk deceitfully for Him? Special religious pleaders Job finds them guilty of speaking falsely as special pl...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural te...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job Defends God Against the Suspicion of Arbitrariness
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Will ye speak wickedly for God and talk deceitfully for Him? Were they really of the opinion that they must act in favor of God by telling lies and b...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Corinthians 4:2 ; Job 11:2-4 ; Job 17:5 ; Job 32:21 ; Job 32:22 ; Job 36:4 ; Job 4:7 ; John 16:2 ; Romans 3:5-8

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

Related Commentaries of Job 13:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 13:7