Job 13:10 Meaning and Explanation
“He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job warns that God will rebuke his friends for their hidden partiality.
What Does Job 13:10 Mean?
Job states plainly what he has been implying: God Himself will reprove his friends for the secret favoritism in their arguments. Even partiality concealed in the heart does not escape God's notice or His correction.
The warning rests on a bedrock truth of Scripture: God sees what is hidden. The friends believed they stood safely on God's side, yet Job tells them the Judge they invoke will judge them. This is sobering and freeing at once. Nothing done in secret is truly secret before God, but the same searching God is also the one who corrects in love. His reproof is not the last word for those who turn to Him; it is the door to truth and restoration.
Job 13:10 in the Original Language
yakach (יָכַח), 'reprove' -- to argue, correct, or set right; the same root used of God's loving reproof of His own.
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What does Job 13:10 mean?
Job warns that God will rebuke his friends for their hidden partiality.