Job 13:9
Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed ? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings ?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
8Do you accept his person, and do you endeavour to judge for God?
10He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.
Cross References
Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceiver, and him that is deceived.
Job 34:36My father, let Job be tried even to the end : cease not from the man of iniquity.
Jeremiah 17:10I am the Lord who search the heart and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.
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 →