Your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest’; for my lord the king is like the angel of God, discerning good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”
Job 32:21 - New Revised Standard Version I will not show partiality to any person or use flattery toward anyone. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Let me not, I pray you, accept any man's person, Neither let me give flattering titles unto man. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition I will not [I warn you] be influenced by respect for any man's person and show partiality, neither will I flatter any man. American Standard Version (1901) Let me not, I pray you, respect any man’s person; Neither will I give flattering titles unto any man. Common English Bible I won’t be partial to anyone, won’t flatter a person; Catholic Public Domain Version I will not esteem the reputation of a man, and I will not equate God with man. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version I will not accept the person of man: and I will not level God with man. |
Your servant thought, ‘The word of my lord the king will set me at rest’; for my lord the king is like the angel of God, discerning good and evil. The Lord your God be with you!”
In order to change the course of affairs your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”
Will you show partiality toward him, will you plead the case for God?
I must speak, so that I may find relief; I must open my lips and answer.
For I do not know how to flatter— or my Maker would soon put an end to me!
My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
who shows no partiality to nobles, nor regards the rich more than the poor, for they are all the work of his hands?
“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah
These also are sayings of the wise: Partiality in judging is not good.
Whoever rebukes a person will afterward find more favor than one who flatters with the tongue.
You shall not render an unjust judgment; you shall not be partial to the poor or defer to the great: with justice you shall judge your neighbor.
and so I make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you have not kept my ways but have shown partiality in your instruction.
So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with partiality.
You must not be partial in judging: hear out the small and the great alike; you shall not be intimidated by anyone, for the judgment is God's. Any case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.”
You must not distort justice; you must not show partiality; and you must not accept bribes, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and subverts the cause of those who are in the right.