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 friends by Job is that they had no knowledge of his guilt, and merely took part for God against him out of servility to God. This servility was nothing but a superficial religiousness, allied to superstition, which did not form its conception of God from the broad facts of the universe.

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