Job 13:9
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
World English Bible British
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 you show partiality to him? Will you contend for God?
10He will surely reprove you if you secretly show partiality.
Cross References
Job 12:16With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 34:36I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
Psalms 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
Jeremiah 17:10“I, the LORD, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, 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 →