Tree of Life Version
Job 13:9
9Would it turn out well if He examined you? Could you deceive Him as you deceive 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?
- 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 unjustly on God’s behalf? Will you speak deceitfully for Him? 8Will you show Him partiality? Will you argue the case for God? Would it turn out well if He examined you? Could you deceive Him as you deceive a man? 10He would surely rebuke you if you secretly showed favoritism. 11Would not His majesty terrify you and the dread of Him fall on you?
Read all of Job 13Job 13:9 word by word
הֲ֭טוֹב כִּֽי־יַחְקֹ֣ר אֶתְכֶ֑ם אִם־כְּהָתֵ֥ל בֶּ֝אֱנ֗וֹשׁ תְּהָתֵ֥לּוּ בֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 13:9
- Job 34:36Oh, that Job might be tested to the end, for answering like wicked men.
- Psalms 44:21If we had forgotten the Name of our God or stretched our hands to a foreign god,
- Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,
- Jeremiah 17:10I Adonai search the heart, I try the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
- Jeremiah 17:2So their children remember their altars and their Asherah poles by leafy trees on the high hills.
- Isaiah 28:22So now, stop your scoffing, lest your shackles be strengthened! For I have heard from Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot of destruction determined upon the whole land.
- Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived—God is not mocked. For whatever a man sows, that he also shall 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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