Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Will you lift up His person, or contend 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?
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?
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 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 Would you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for Him? 8 Will you lift up His person, or contend for God? 9 Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 24:23
These also are for the wise: To have respect of persons in judgment is not good.
Exodus 23:2-3
You shall not follow a multitude to do evil. Neither shall you speak in a cause in order to follow many in order to wrest judgment.
Leviticus 19:15
You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment. You shall not respect the person of the poor, nor honor the person of the mighty; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Job 32:21
I will not now lift up the face of a man, nor eulogize any man,
Job 34:19
How much less to Him who does not lift up the face of rulers, nor regard the rich before the poor? For all of them are the work of His hands.
Malachi 2:9
Therefore I have also made you despised and low before all the people, just as you have not kept My ways but are lifting up faces in the law.