Job 13:7

Second strophe Such is Job’s fiery indignation at the dishonesty and arrogance of the friends in assuming to be God’s advocates, that he still turns aside from his main purpose of appeal that he may chide them anew, Job 13:7-12.

7. Deceitfully In the sense of sophistically. Their sophism assumed the form of a dilemma either Job is a transgressor or God is unjust. But the dilemma necessarily failed in the latter condition, and thus the whole fell to the ground.