Job 13:9
If he looks closely, will he find that everything that you have done is good? Or can you deceive him, like you deceive other people?
Translation for Translators
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
8Are you trying to defend him? Are you trying to prove as you would in a court that he is innocent?
10If you secretly say/do things to cause God to act favorably toward you, he will surely rebuke you.
Cross References
Job 12:16He is the one who is truly strong and wise; he rules over those who deceive others and those whom they deceive.
Job 34:36I think that Job should be taken to a court and ◄put on trial/judged►, because he answers us his friends like wicked men would answer.
Psalms 139:23God, search my inner being; find out what I am thinking!
Jeremiah 17:10But I, Yahweh, search what is in everyone’s inner being, and I examine what they are thinking. I will give all people rewards, what they deserve for what they have done.”
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 →