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Job 13:7
Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Job speaks to his friends at the moment he commands them to listen to his formal argument before they reply.
The words — עַוְלָה ('avlah) means unrighteousness, and רְמִיָּה (remiyah) means deceit.
The thread — Job echoes this refusal to use false speech in Job 27:4, while Job 36:4 and Job 4:7 record his parallel appeals for truthful discourse and the fate of the blameless.
Why it lands — It requires readers to examine whether they defend God with factual honesty or with biased, deceptive arguments.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
Cross-references
- Job 36:4 For truly my words are free of falsehood; one perfect in knowledge is with you.
- Job 27:4 my lips will not speak wickedness, and my tongue will not utter deceit.
- Job 4:7 Consider now, I plead: Who, being innocent, has ever perished? Or where have the upright been destroyed?
- Job 11:2 “Should this stream of words go unanswered and such a speaker be vindicated?
- Job 17:5 If a man denounces his friends for a price, the eyes of his children will fail.
- Job 32:21 I will be partial to no one, nor will I flatter any man.
- John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
- Romans 3:5 But if our unrighteousness highlights the righteousness of God, what shall we say? That God is unjust to inflict His wrath on us? I am speaking in human terms.
- 2 Corinthians 4:2 Instead, we have renounced secret and shameful ways. We do not practice deceit, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by open proclamation of the truth, we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.