Job 13:9

Job 13:9 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
• New International Version (NIV)Would it turn out well if he examined you? Could you deceive him as you might deceive a mortal?
• English Standard Version (ESV)Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
• New King James Version (NKJV)Will it be well when He searches you out? Or can you mock Him as one mocks a man?

Context of Job 13:9

7Will you speak what is unjust for God, And speak what is deceitful for Him? 8Will you show partiality for Him [and be unjust to me so that you may gain favor with Him]? Will you contend and plead for God? Will it be well for you when He investigates you [and your tactics against me]? Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man? 10He will surely reprimand you If you secretly show partiality. 11Will not His majesty terrify you, And will not the dread of Him fall upon you?

Job 13:9 word by word

הֲ֭טוֹב כִּֽי־יַחְקֹ֣ר אֶתְכֶ֑ם אִם־כְּהָתֵ֥ל בֶּ֝אֱנ֗וֹשׁ תְּהָתֵ֥לּוּ בֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Is it goodטוֹבţôb · be pleasingH2895
• that he should search you outחָקַרchâqar · to searchH2713
• or as one manאֱנוֹשׁ'ĕnôsh · humanH582
• mockethתָּלַלhâthal · to deceiveH2048

Cross-references for Job 13:9

• Job 34:36Job ought to be tried to the limit Because he answers like wicked men!
• Psalms 44:21Would not God discover this? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
• Psalms 139:23Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart; Test me and know my anxious thoughts;
• Jeremiah 17:10I, the Lord, search and examine the mind, I test the heart, To give to each man according to his ways, According to the results of his deeds.
• Jeremiah 17:2As they remember their children, So they remember [in detail] their [pagan] altars and their Asherim Beside green trees on the high hills.
• Isaiah 28:22Now do not carry on as scoffers, Or the bands which bind you will be made stronger; For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts [a decree] Of decisive destruction on all the earth.
• Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived, God is not mocked [He will not allow Himself to be ridiculed, nor treated with contempt nor allow His precepts to be scornfully set aside]; for whatever a man sows, this and this only is what he will reap.

Commentaries on Job 13:9

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Is it good that he should search you out? - Would it be to your credit if God should try your hearts, and uncover the motives of your conduct? Were you tried as I am, how would you appear? Do ye so mock him? - Do ye think that you can deceive him; and by flattering speeches bring him to your terms, as you would bring an undiscerning, empty mortal, like yourselves?Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Is it good that he should search you out? - Would it be well for you if he should go into an investigation of your character, and of the arguments which you adduce? The idea is, that if God should make such an investigation, the result would be highly unfavorable to them. Perhaps Job means to intimate that, if they were subjected to the kind of trial that he had been, it would be seen that they could not bear it. “Or as one man mocketh another.” The idea…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-10Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf: False witnesses were not allowed, even when speaking for God (Exodus 20:16).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 99. Will the issue to you be good, when He searches out you and your arguments? Will you be regarded by Him as pure and disinterested? mock--(Ga 6:7). Rather, "Can you deceive Him as one man?" &c.Read the comment

Topics related to Job 13:9

• Blasphemy
• Persecution

In the dictionaries

• Dread
• Motheaten
• Spend
• Value
• How
• Mock; Mocker; Mocking

Commentaries on Job 13

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings