Exodus 23:2; Exodus 23:3; Job 32:21; Job 34:19; Malachi 2:9; Proverbs 24:23
Will ye accept his person? - That is, will you be partial to him? The language is such as is used in relation to courts of justice, where a judge...
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...
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Will ye accept his person? - Do you think to act by him as you would by a mortal; and, by telling...
Will ye contend for God— The Hebrew for contend is a judicial term, and oftentimes used for putting a sentence in execution. Of this there is a p...
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Accept his person - God's; i:e., be partial for Him, as when a judge favours one party in...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
(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....
Will ye accept his person ?.... Accepting persons ought not to be done in judgment by earthly judges; which is done when they give a cause to one th...
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? Ver. 8. Will ye accept his person? ] While you think to gratify him, and to ingratiate with hi...
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...
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...
Job's Reply to Zophar. B. C. 1520. 1 L...
Will ye accept his person? not judging according to the right of the cause, but the quality of the person, as corrupt judges do. Will ye contend,...
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 )....
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...
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...
Job Defends God Against the Suspicion of Arbitrariness
Will ye accept His person? That is, would they show preference for His countenance, partiality for His person? Will ye contend for God, acting the...
Accept — Not judging according to the right of the cause, but the quality or the person.
8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?