Job 13:9
Will you be found to be doing good when God examines you? Can you fool him as if he's a human being?
Free Bible 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
8Or are you wanting to show God favoritism? Are you going to argue God's case for him?
10No, he will definitely rebuke you if you secretly show him favoritism!
Cross References
Job 12:16He is mighty and victorious; both deceivers and those deceived are subject to him.
Job 34:36If only Job were thoroughly condemned because he speaks like evil people do.
Psalms 139:23Examine me carefully, God, so you can be sure of my true feelings. Check me out so you can know what I really think.
Jeremiah 17:10But I, the Lord, see what people are thinking. I examine their minds, so I can reward them depending on their attitudes and the way they behave.
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 →