Job 13:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for him?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:4 : 4 For in truth, my words are not false; it is one complete in knowledge who is with you.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • Rom 3:5-8 : 5 But if our unrighteousness demonstrates the righteousness of God, what shall we say? The God who inflicts wrath is not unrighteous, is he?(I am speaking in human terms.) 6 Absolutely not! For otherwise how could God judge the world? 7 For if by my lie the truth of God enhances his glory, why am I still actually being judged as a sinner? 8 And why not say,“Let us do evil so that good may come of it”?– as some who slander us allege that we say.(Their condemnation is deserved!)
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have rejected shameful hidden deeds, not behaving with deceptiveness or distorting the word of God, but by open proclamation of the truth we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience before God.
  • Job 4:7 : 7 Call to mind now: Who, being innocent, ever perished? And where were upright people ever destroyed?
  • Job 11:2-4 : 2 “Should not this abundance of words be answered, or should this talkative man be vindicated? 3 Should people remain silent at your idle talk, and should no one rebuke you when you mock? 4 For you have said,‘My teaching is flawless, and I am pure in your sight.’
  • Job 17:5 : 5 If a man denounces his friends for personal gain, the eyes of his children will fail.
  • Job 27:4 : 4 my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will whisper no deceit.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 I will not show partiality to anyone, nor will I confer a title on any man. 22 for I do not know how to give honorary titles, if I did, my Creator would quickly do away with me.

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