Job 13:10
in Job 13Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
He will surely reprove you, If ye do secretly show partiality.
KJV
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
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This verse in Job 13
Commentary
7 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons - If you show partiality, you will incur his disapprobation. This seems to have much era proverbial cast, and to mean that under no possible circumstances was it right to show partiality. No matter for whom it may be done, it will be displeasing to God. Even if it be in favor of the righteous, the widow, the fatherless, or of himself, if there is not a disposition to judge according to truth and evidence, God will frown upon you.
This site's exposition
Surely He would rebuke you
on Job 13:10-12
"Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality" presses the charge, since even a private partiality for God's side will meet His rebuke. "Your maxims are proverbs of ashes" reduces their sayings to what a fire leaves, maxims that crumble under the weight they are made to bear.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"If he follows your traces," Job says. Therefore you, who speak so now would have not spoken so, if you were directly involved in the case that is judged. That is, if you were in my place and God were judging your matters with severity, you would have not judged my words as you do now. Or, to say things in a different manner, you, who speak so, would have not been judges of my words. In fact, Job says, even if you speak more, and you do everything to speak in God's favor, he will not confound you any less and will ask you for explanations.
The Medieval Church2 voices
One must also carefully consider that he who uses a lie to show the justice and the goodness of God not only does a thing which God does not need, but also offends God in this very act. For since God is truth, and every …
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly take His face. Presently when He ariseth He shall make you afraid; and His dread shall fall upon you. This part, wherein He declares that 'the face of God is taken in secret,' may be understood in two ways. For there be some, who at one and the same time perceive truth in their hearts, and yet utter outwardly concerning God things that are false. For lest they should appear to be subdued, they both know the truth within, and yet assail it without.
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
He will surely reprove you,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
He will surely reprove you - You may expect, not only his disapprobation, but his hot displeasure.
How the passage was read
What the Jewish commentators add
He will surely reprove you Will He not let you know your speech?
This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.
Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הוֹכֵ֣חַ | hokheach | certainly <to rebuke> | H3198 → | 59 times |
| יוֹכִ֣יחַ | yokhiach | he will rebuke | H3198 → | 59 times |
| אֶתְכֶ֑ם | ʾetkhem | <obj.> you | H853 → | 10935 times |
| אִם־ | ʾim- | if | H518 → | 1069 times |
| בַּ֝סֵּ֗תֶר | baseter | in <the> secrecy | H5643 → | 36 times |
| פָּנִ֥ים | panim | faces | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| תִּשָּׂאֽוּן׃ | tisaun | you will lift up ! | H5375 → | 656 times |
הוֹכֵ֣חַcertainly <to rebuke>
hokheachH3198 →59 times
יוֹכִ֣יחַhe will rebuke
yokhiachH3198 →59 times
אֶתְכֶ֑ם<obj.> you
ʾetkhemH853 →10935 times
אִם־if
ʾim-H518 →1069 times
בַּ֝סֵּ֗תֶרin <the> secrecy
baseterH5643 →36 times
פָּנִ֥יםfaces
panimH6440 →2123 times
תִּשָּׂאֽוּן׃you will lift up !
tisaunH5375 →656 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
James 2:9But if you show favoritism, you sin and are convicted by the law as transgressors.
it leads to
- Leviticus 19:15
You must not pervert justice; you must not show partiality to the poor or favoritism to the rich; you are to judge your neighbor fairly.
- James 2:1–4
My brothers, as you hold out your faith in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, do not show favoritism.
- John 8:9
When they heard this, they began to go away one by one, beginning with the older ones, until only Jesus was left, with the woman standing there.
- Leviticus 19:15
Through
Psalms 82:2“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
it leads to
- Proverbs 18:5
Showing partiality to the wicked is not good, nor is depriving the innocent of justice.
- Deuteronomy 1:17
Show no partiality in judging; hear both small and great alike. Do not be intimidated by anyone, for judgment belongs to God. And bring to me any case too difficult for you, and I…
- Psalms 58:1–2
Do you indeed speak justly, O rulers? Do you judge uprightly, O sons of men?
- Exodus 10:3
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and told him, “This is what the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, says: ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before Me? Let My people…
- Galatians 2:6
But as for the highly esteemed—whatever they were makes no difference to me; God does not show favoritism—those leaders added nothing to me.
- Proverbs 18:5
Where this verse is studied
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About Job
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book XI; John Chrysostom, COMMENTARY ON JOB 13:8-10A; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.