Job 13:9

"Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?"

Key Reflection

In Job 13:9, these questions challenge the notion that one might favor or defend God unjustly in a court of moral judgment. They underscore the importance of maintaining integrity and fairness, even when dealing with divine matters, highlighting the need for just treatment and honest argumentation.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Is it good that he should search you out? -Would it be well for you if he should go into an investigation of your character, and of the arguments which you adduce? The idea is, that if God should make such an investigation, the result would be highly unfavorable to them. Perhaps Job means to intimate that, if they were subjected to the kind of trial that he had been, it would be seen that they could not bear it. “Or as one man mocketh another.” The idea here is, “it is possible to delude or deceive man, but God cannot be deceived. You may conceal your thoughts and motives from man, but you cannot from God.

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