King James Version
Job 13:10 in the King James Version says “He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.” — study this verse from Job chapter 13 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.”
Job 13:10 · KJV
Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
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“He will surely”
H3198to be right (i.e., correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
“He will surely”
H3198to be right (i.e., correct); reciprocal, to argue; causatively, to decide, justify or convict
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
used very widely as demonstrative, lo!; interrogative, whether?; or conditional, if, although; also oh that!, when; hence, as a negative, not
“you if ye do secretly”
H5643a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
“persons”
H6440the face (as the part that turns); used in a great variety of applications (literally and figuratively); also (with prepositional prefix) as a preposi
“accept”
H5375to lift, in a great variety of applications, literal and figurative, absolute and relative
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