Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Job 13:8
Accept — Not judging according to the right of the cause, but the quality or the person.
Accept — Not judging according to the right of the cause, but the quality or the person.
Verse Job 13:8. _WILL YE ACCEPT HIS PERSON?_] Do you think to act by him as you would by a _mortal_; and, by telling lies in his favour, attempt to conciliate his esteem?...
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 shows favor to one of the parties on account of birth,...
CHAPTER S 12-14 JOB'S ANSWER TO ZOPHAR _ 1. His sarcasm (Job 12:1)_ 2. He describes God's power (Job 12:7) 3. He denounces his friends (Job 13:1) 4. He appeals to God ...
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 inferior to you in knowledge, says Job (Job 13:2)....
The same charge put more explicitly. To accept the person of one is to be partial on his side, cf. Job 13:10. _contend for God_ i. e. will ye play the advocate for God? The charge made against his fri...
Severe rebuke of the three friends, in which (1) they are charged with partiality for God, and with acting the advocate for Him (Job 13:6); and (2) they are threatened with the chastisement of God for...
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 particular instance in the case of Gideon, who was dem...
4. The friends are self-deceived. (Job 13:1-12) TEXT 13:1-12 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...
_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 a trial, because of personal considerations. CONTEND F...
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 troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favour...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 13 JOB CONTINUES HIS REPLY...
Job was right about his friends’ unfair words. Later, God told them that he was angry with them (Job 42:7). When God told them this, they obeyed him. They asked Job to pray for them. And God forgave t...
הֲ פָנָ֥יו תִּשָּׂא֑וּן אִם ־לָ † אֵ֥ל...
XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1; Job 13:1; Job 14:1 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he is the third to spe...
“THOUGH HE SLAY ME” Job 13:1 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was sufferin...
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). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pass...
_Accept. Hebrew, "will you not be seized with fear?" Olympiodorus translates, "will you stad in his presence, and dispute with him?" (Calmet) --- Septuagint, "Are you sent to be judges?" &c., or, do y...
(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. (3) Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I de...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
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 through favour and affection to his person, because ric...
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 him by oppressing me? Can you find no other way of jus...
_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 arguments which I shall produce. _Will ye speak wicke...
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 part of God's advocates or lawyers? Their actions see...
JOB DEFENDS GOD AGAINST THE SUSPICION OF ARBITRARINESS...
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 has seen all this, his ear has heard it and understood...
1-12 With self-preference, Job declared that he needed not to be taught by them. Those who dispute are tempted to magnify themselves, and lower their brethren, more than is fit. When dismayed or dist...
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, i.e. wrangle and quarrel with me, and cavil at my spee...
Job 13:8 partiality H5375 (H8799) H6440 contend H7378 (H8799) God H410 Job 32:21,...
CONTENTS: Job's answer to three friends continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, three friends. CONCLUSION: We should presevere in the way of duty, though it cost us all that is dear to us in this world, re...
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 accept of persons. Job 13:12. _Your remembrances are like...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:3 Before he turns to address his lament directly to God (Job 13:20), Job argues that his friends have misdiagnosed him (WORTHLESS PHYSICIANS;...
JOB—NOTE ON JOB 13:6 Using legal terminology, Job says his friends are showing favoritism to his divine opponent in making his CASE for him (v. Job 13:8)....
_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). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumstances to main...
EXPOSITION JOB 13:1, JOB 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1. are closely connected with Job 12:1; fo
Lo, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood. Now what you know, the same I also know. I am not inferior to you. Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I would desire to reason wit...
Exodus 23:2; Exodus 23:3; Job 32:21; Job 34:19; Malachi 2:9;...