The Meaning of Job 13:7 Explained

Job 13:7

KJV: Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?

YLT: For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?

Darby: Will ye speak unrighteously for God? and for him speak deceit?

ASV: Will ye speak unrighteously for God, And talk deceitfully for him?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Will ye speak  wickedly  for God?  and talk  deceitfully  for him? 

What does Job 13:7 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 13:1-28 - "though He Slay Me"
The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12. Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he was suffering, might be set down, Job 13:23.
When Job said that he knew himself to be righteous, he was clearly speaking of known sin; he knew, so far as a man may know himself, that he had not committed the sins of which his friends charged him. He could bare his life to the inspection of men and angels, being sure that no accusation of which human law-courts would take cognizance could be established against him. But this is a very different matter with the divine tribunal. When a fuller light had shone upon him from the face of God, when the patriarch had seen Him instead of merely hearing of Him by the ear, then he would "abhor himself and repent in dust and ashes," Job 42:5-6.
Job 13:15 is almost the greatest sentence ever uttered by mortal lips! Let us ask for grace to affirm it. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 13

1  Job reproves his friends for partiality
14  He professes his confidence in God;
19  and entreats to know his own sins, and God's purpose in afflicting him

What do the individual words in Job 13:7 mean?

Will for God you speak wickedly and for Him talk deceitfully
؟ הַ֭לְאֵל תְּדַבְּר֣וּ עַוְלָ֑ה וְ֝ל֗וֹ תְּֽדַבְּר֥וּ רְמִיָּֽה

؟ הַ֭לְאֵל  Will  for  God 
Parse: Article, Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular
Root: אֵל 
Sense: god, god-like one, mighty one.
תְּדַבְּר֣וּ  you  speak 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, second person masculine plural
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
עַוְלָ֑ה  wickedly 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: עָוֶל 
Sense: injustice, unrighteousness, wrong.
וְ֝ל֗וֹ  and  for  Him 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition, third person masculine singular
תְּֽדַבְּר֥וּ  talk 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, second person masculine plural
Root: דָּבַר 
Sense: to speak, declare, converse, command, promise, warn, threaten, sing.
רְמִיָּֽה  deceitfully 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular
Root: רְמִיָּה 
Sense: laxness, slackness, slackening, deceit, treachery.