8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
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These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.
Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to decline after many to wrest judgment: …
Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, neither let me give flattering titles unto man.
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.
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.
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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…
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