Job 13:7
Good News Translation
Why are you lying? Do you think your lies will benefit God?

New Revised Standard Version
Will you speak falsely for God, and speak deceitfully for him?

Contemporary English Version
Are you telling lies for God

New American Bible
Is it for God that you speak falsehood? Is it for him that you utter deceit?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?

Job 4:7 Remember, I pray thee, who ever perished being innocent? or when were the just destroyed?

Job 11:2-4 Shall not he that speaketh much, hear also? or shall a man full of talk be justified? . . .

Job 17:5 He promiseth a prey to his companions, and the eyes of his children shall fail.

Job 32:21,22 I will not accept the person of man, and I will not level God with man. . . .

Job 36:4 For indeed my words are without a lie, and perfect knowledge shall be proved to thee.

John 16:2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth a service to God.

Romans 3:5-8 But if our injustice commend the justice of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust, who executeth wrath? . . .

2 Corinthians 4:2 But we renounce the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness nor adulterating the word of God: but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience, in the sight of God.

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
6Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips. 7Hath God any need of your lie, that you should speak deceitfully for him?8Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?…
Cross References
Job 12:16
With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is deceived.

Job 13:6
Hear ye therefore my reproof, and attend to the judgment of my lips.

Job 27:4
My lips shall not speak iniquity, neither shall my tongue contrive lying.

Job 13:6
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