Job 13:9
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one overreacheth another mortal, do ye expect to overreach him?
Leeser Tanakh
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 undue favor, when ye contend for God?
10He will surely reprove you, if in secret you show him undue favor.
Cross References
Job 12:16With him are strength and counsel: his are the deceived and the deceiver.
Job 34:36Oh that Job may therefore be probed continually, in order to give answers against sinful men.
Psalms 139:23Search me through, O God, and know my heart; probe me, and know my thoughts:
Jeremiah 17:10I the Lord search the heart, probe the reins: yea, to give unto every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
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 →