Then your handmaid also thought, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring relief. For like an angel of God so is my lord the king to discern good and evil.’ So may Adonai your God be with you.”
Job 32:21 - Tree of Life Version I will show partiality to no one, nor will I flatter 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. |
Then your handmaid also thought, ‘Please let the word of my lord the king bring relief. For like an angel of God so is my lord the king to discern good and evil.’ So may Adonai your God be with you.”
Your servant Joab did this thing in order to bring about a change in the situation. But my lord is wise—like the wisdom of an angel of God—to know all that goes on in the land.”
I must speak that I may find relief; I will open my lips that I may answer.
for I do not know how to flatter else my Maker would quickly carry me away!
My words are from my upright heart; my lips speak sincerely what they know.
Who shows no partiality before princes, and does not favor the rich over 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 sayings are also from the wise: Partiality in judgment is not good.
One who rebukes a man will in the end find more favor than one with a flattering tongue.
“You are to do no injustice in judgment. You are not to be partial toward the poor nor show favoritism toward the great, but you are to judge your neighbor with fairness.
“So I also have made you despised and lowly to all the people, because you are not keeping My ways but show favoritism in Torah.”
And they sent to Him some of their disciples, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that You are honest and teach the way of God in truth. And what others think doesn’t concern You, for You do not look at men’s appearance.
You must not show partiality in judgment —you must hear the small and the great alike. Fear no 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.’
You are not to twist justice—you must not show partiality or take a bribe, for a bribe blinds the eyes of the wise and distorts the words of the righteous.