Job 13:9
For it were well if he would thoroughly search you: 1 For though doing all things in your power ye should attach yourselves to him, 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 will ye draw back? 1 Nay, do ye yourselves be judges. 1
10He will not reprove you at all the less: 1 But if moreover ye should secretly respect persons, 1
Cross References
Job 12:16With him are strength and power: 1 He has knowledge and understanding. 1
Job 34:36Howbeit do thou learn, Job: 1 No longer make answer as the foolish: 1
Jeremiah 17:10I the Lord try the hearts, and prove the reins, to give to every one according to his ways, and according to the fruits 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 →