Job 13:9
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
Darby Translation
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
8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
10He will certainly reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Cross References
Job 12:16With him is strength and effectual knowledge; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 34:36Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of [his] answers after the manner of evil men!
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
Jeremiah 17:10I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
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 →