Job 13:7

World English Bible (2000)

Will you speak unrighteously for God, and talk deceitfully for him?

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 36:4 : 4 For truly my words are not false. One who is perfect in knowledge is with you.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
  • Rom 3:5-8 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world? 7 For if the truth of God through my lie abounded to his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner? 8 Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), "Let us do evil, that good may come?" Those who say so are justly condemned.
  • 2 Cor 4:2 : 2 But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by the manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
  • Job 4:7 : 7 "Remember, now, whoever perished, being innocent? Or where were the upright cut off?
  • Job 11:2-4 : 2 "Shouldn't the multitude of words be answered? Should a man full of talk be justified? 3 Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed? 4 For you say, 'My doctrine is pure. I am clean in your eyes.'
  • Job 17:5 : 5 He who denounces his friends for a prey, Even the eyes of his children shall fail.
  • Job 27:4 : 4 surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.
  • Job 32:21-22 : 21 Please don't let me respect any man's person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man. 22 For I don't know how to give flattering titles; or else my Maker would soon take me away.

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  • Job 13:8-9
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    8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?

    9Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

  • 13That you turn your spirit against God, and let such words go out of your mouth?

  • 4surely my lips shall not speak unrighteousness, neither shall my tongue utter deceit.

  • 16But to the wicked God says, "What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,

  • 13Why does the wicked person condemn God, and say in his heart, "God won't call me into account?"

  • 6Hear now my reasoning. Listen to the pleadings of my lips.

  • 3Does God pervert justice? Or does the Almighty pervert righteousness?

  • 19"You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.

  • 3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

  • 13Keep your tongue from evil, and your lips from speaking lies.

  • 8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 3Should your boastings make men hold their peace? When you mock, shall no man make you ashamed?

  • 1You are righteous, Yahweh, when I contend with you; yet I would reason the cause with you: why does the way of the wicked prosper? why are all they at ease who deal very treacherously?

  • Job 15:3-5
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    3Should he reason with unprofitable talk, or with speeches with which he can do no good?

    4Yes, you do away with fear, and hinder devotion before God.

    5For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.

  • 5But oh that God would speak, and open his lips against you,

  • 4Is it for your piety that he reproves you, that he enters with you into judgment?

  • 7For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

  • 3"Surely I would speak to the Almighty. I desire to reason with God.

  • 1Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?

  • 17'Shall mortal man be more just than God? Shall a man be more pure than his Maker?

  • Job 34:17-18
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    17Shall even one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty?--

    18Who says to a king, 'Vile!' or to nobles, 'Wicked!'?

  • 13You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,

  • 4Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

  • 11Shall I be pure with dishonest scales, and with a bag of deceitful weights?

  • 12Yes surely, God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert justice.

  • 17Hear diligently my speech. Let my declaration be in your ears.

  • 13transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • 3What will be given to you, and what will be done more to you, you deceitful tongue?

  • 13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

  • 3You love evil more than good, lying rather than speaking the truth. Selah.

  • 7If you are righteous, what do you give him? Or what does he receive from your hand?

  • 3The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

  • 20For they speak against you wickedly. Your enemies take your name in vain.

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    8Behold, you trust in lying words, that can't profit.

    9Will you steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense to Baal, and walk after other gods that you have not known,

  • 2"Do you think this to be your right, or do you say, 'My righteousness is more than God's,'

  • 7His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

  • 1Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God's loving kindness endures continually.

  • 5"'Will he retain [his anger] forever? Will he keep it to the end?' Behold, you have spoken and have done evil things, and have had your way."

  • 7It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, "My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.

  • 17He who is truthful testifies honestly, but a false witness lies.

  • 1Vindicate me, God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation. Oh, deliver me from deceitful and wicked men.

  • 13"Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'

  • 3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • 2"How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?" Selah.

  • 7Haven't you seen a false vision, and haven't you spoken a lying divination, in that you say, Yahweh says; but I have not spoken?