Job 13:9
Is [it] good that He searches you, || If, as one mocks at a man, you mock at Him?
Literal Standard 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
8Do you accept His face, if you strive for God?
10He surely reproves you, if you accept faces in secret.
Cross References
Job 12:16With Him [are] strength and wisdom, || His the deceived and deceiver.
Job 34:36My Father! Let Job be tried—to victory, || Because of answers for men of iniquity,
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart, || Try me, and know my thoughts,
Jeremiah 17:10I, YHWH, search the heart, try the reins, || Even to give to each according to his way, || 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 →