Job 13:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 13:7 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 36:4
For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
Job 32:21-22
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man. …
Job 27:4
My lips shall not speak wickedness, nor my tongue utter deceit.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Job 11:2-4
Should not the multitude of words be answered? and should a man full of talk be justified? …

Topics

Accusation, False Afflictions and Adversities Bigotry Blasphemy Cursing God Intolerance, Religious Martyrdom

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

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, 2. They compelled him, as the Corinthians did Paul, to commend himself and his own knowledge, yet not in a way of self-applause, but of self-justification. All he had before said his eye ha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. deceitfully--use fallacies to vindicate God in His dealings; as if the end justified the means. Their “deceitfulness” for God, against Job, was that they asserted he was a sinner, because he was a sufferer.