Job 13:9
Would it be good that He should search you out? Or as one mocketh a man, will ye mock Him?
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 show Him favour? Will ye contend for God?
10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly show favour.
Cross References
Job 12:16With Him is strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His.
Job 34:36Would that Job were tried unto the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart, try me, and know my thoughts;
Jeremiah 17:10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man 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 →