English Standard Version
Job 13:9
9Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man?
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?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Will it be well when He searches you out? Or can you mock Him as one mocks a man?
- New Living Translation (NLT)What will happen when he finds out what you are doing? Can you fool him as easily as you fool people?
Context of Job 13:9
7Will you speak falsely for God and speak deceitfully for him? 8Will you show partiality toward him? Will you plead the case for God? Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man? 10He will surely rebuke you if in secret you show partiality. 11Will not his majesty terrify you, and the dread of him fall upon you?
Read all of Job 13Job 13:9 word by word
הֲ֭טוֹב כִּֽי־יַחְקֹ֣ר אֶתְכֶ֑ם אִם־כְּהָתֵ֥ל בֶּ֝אֱנ֗וֹשׁ תְּהָתֵ֥לּוּ בֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 13:9
- Job 34:36Would that Job were tried to the end, 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, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
- Jeremiah 17:10"I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds."
- Jeremiah 17:2while their children remember their altars and their Asherim, beside every green tree and on the high hills,
- Isaiah 28:22Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.
- Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also 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
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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
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