Job 13:9
Or, will it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? Or, will he be deceived, like a man, by your deceitfulness?
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
In Context
8Have you taken his place, and do you struggle to give judgment in favor of God?
10He will accuse you because in secret you have preempted his presence.
Cross References
Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom; he knows both the deceiver and he who is deceived.
Job 34:36My father, let Job be tested even to the end; may you not retreat from a man of iniquity.
Jeremiah 17:10I am the Lord, who examines the heart and tests the temperament, who gives to each one according to his way and according to the fruit of his own decisions.
Matthew Henry on Job 13:2-13
Job's Reply to Zophar. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Lo, mine eye hath seen all this, mine ear hath heard and understood it. 2 What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you. 3 Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God. 4 But ye are forgers of lies, ye are all physicians of no value. 5 O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom. 6 Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips. 7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for… Read the whole commentary →