Job 13:9
Will it be well for you, if he search you thoroughly? Can ye deceive him, as one may deceive a man?
Noyes Bible
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 be partial to his person? Will ye contend earnestly for God?
10Surely he will rebuke you, If ye secretly have respect to persons.
Cross References
Job 12:16With him are strength and wisdom; The deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 34:36I desire that Job may be tried to the last, For answering like wicked men.
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God! and know my heart; Try me, and know my thoughts;
Jeremiah 17:10I, Jehovah, search the heart, And try the reins, To give to every man according to his ways, And 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 →