Job 13:8
Hebrew Text— Job 13:8Will you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
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You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be afraid of the face of man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.”
For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.
My brothers, don’t hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory with partiality.
Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. You shall not take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous.
Open your mouth, judge righteously, and serve justice to the poor and needy.”
Peter opened his mouth and said, “Truly I perceive that God doesn’t show favoritism;
You masters, do the same things to them, and give up threatening, knowing that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and there is no partiality with him.
But if you show partiality, you commit sin, being convicted by the law as transgressors.
“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be cursed.
Now therefore let the fear of Yahweh be on you. Take heed and do it; for there is no iniquity with Yahweh our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.”
To be partial to the faces of the wicked is not good, nor to deprive the innocent of justice.
To show partiality is not good; yet a man will do wrong for a piece of bread.
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
For there is no partiality with God.
Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,
But from those who were reputed to be important—whatever they were, it makes no difference to me; God doesn’t show partiality to man—they, I say, who were respected imparted nothing to me,
But he who does wrong will receive again for the wrong that he has done, and there is no partiality.
If you call on him as Father, who without respect of persons judges according to each man’s work, pass the time of your living as foreigners here in reverent fear,
“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
“You shall not deny justice to your poor people in their lawsuits.
“ ‘You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, fatherless, and widow.’ All the people shall say, ‘Amen.’
Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said to them, “You exact usury, everyone of his brother.” I held a great assembly against them.
Didn’t he who made me in the womb make him? Didn’t one fashion us in the womb?
“How long will you judge unjustly, and show partiality to the wicked?”
Whoever is wise will pay attention to these things. They will consider the loving kindnesses of Yahweh.
to understand a proverb, and parables, the words and riddles of the wise.
He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
These also are sayings of the wise. To show partiality in judgment is not good.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me. I will change their glory into shame.
They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.
haven’t you shown partiality among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.
You shall not favor a poor man in his cause.
“ ‘You shall do no injustice in judgment. You shall not be partial to the poor, nor show favoritism to the great; but you shall judge your neighbor in righteousness.
Your servant Joab has done this thing to change the face of the matter. My lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.”
Also I said, “The thing that you do is not good. Shouldn’t you walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?
Is 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?
He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it.
because I feared the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I kept silence, and didn’t go out of the door—
Please don’t let me respect any man’s person, neither will I give flattering titles to any man.
He doesn’t respect the persons of princes, nor respect the rich more than the poor; for they all are the work of his hands.
Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?
The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.
He plots iniquity on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He doesn’t abhor evil.
He will judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice.
He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
The rich and the poor have this in common: Yahweh is the maker of them all.
Yahweh will enter into judgment with the elders of his people and their leaders: “It is you who have eaten up the vineyard. The plunder of the poor is in your houses.
He has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. Yahweh has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
I will also tear your kerchiefs, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they will be no more in your hand to be hunted. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
Behold, I will rebuke your offspring, and will spread dung on your faces, even the dung of your feasts; and you will be taken away with it.
“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and wicked before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
They asked him, “Teacher, we know that you say and teach what is right, and aren’t partial to anyone, but truly teach the way of God.
Don’t judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment.”
Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let’s have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe,
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;