Parallel Verses
Amplified
“Will you show partiality for Him [and be unjust to me so that you may gain favor with Him]?
Will you contend and plead for God?
New American Standard Bible
Will you contend for God?
King James Version
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Holman Bible
or argue the case in His defense?
International Standard Version
Will you show partiality to him? Will you plead God's case?
A Conservative Version
Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
American Standard Version
Will ye show partiality to him? Will ye contend for God?
Bible in Basic English
Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?
Darby Translation
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Julia Smith Translation
Will ye accept his face? will ye contend for God?
King James 2000
Will you accept his person? will you contend for God?
Lexham Expanded Bible
{Will you show partiality for him}? Or do you want to plead God's case?
Modern King James verseion
Will you lift up His person, or contend for God?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Will ye accept the person of God, or will ye contend with him?
NET Bible
Will you show him partiality? Will you argue the case for God?
New Heart English Bible
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
The Emphasized Bible
Even, for him, would ye be partial? Or, for GOD, would ye so plead?
Webster
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
World English Bible
Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
Youngs Literal Translation
His face do ye accept, if for God ye strive?
Interlinear
Nasa'
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech Continues
7
“Will you speak what is unjust for God,
And speak what is deceitful for Him?
“Will you show partiality for Him [and be unjust to me so that you may gain favor with Him]?
Will you contend and plead for God?
“Will it be well for you when He investigates you [and your tactics against me]?
Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 24:23
These also are sayings of the wise:
To show partiality in judgment is not good.
Exodus 23:2-3
You shall not follow a crowd to do [something] evil, nor shall you testify at a trial or in a dispute so as to side with a crowd in order to pervert justice;
Leviticus 19:15
‘You shall not do injustice in judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor nor show a preference for the great, but judge your neighbor fairly.
Job 32:21
“I will not [I warn you] be partial to any man [that is, let my respect for you mitigate what I say];
Nor flatter any man.
Job 34:19
“Who is not partial to princes,
Nor does He regard the rich above the poor,
For they all are the work of His hands.
Malachi 2:9
“So I have also made you despised and abased before all the people, just as you are not keeping My ways but are showing partiality [to people] in [your administration of] the law.”