Job 13:9


“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?

Job 12:16


“With Him are might and sound wisdom,
The misled and the misleader are His [and in His power].

Job 17:2


“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,
And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.

Job 34:36


‘Job ought to be tried to the limit
Because he answers like wicked men!

Psalm 44:21


Would not God discover this?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.

Psalm 139:23


Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart;
Test me and know my anxious thoughts;

Isaiah 28:22


Now 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.

Jeremiah 17:10


“I, 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.

Galatians 6:7-8

Do 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

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Job 34:36

‘Job ought to be tried to the limit
Because he answers like wicked men!
Psalm 44:21

Would not God discover this?
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalm 139:23

Search me [thoroughly], O God, and know my heart;
Test me and know my anxious thoughts;
Jeremiah 17:10

“I, 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.

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Job 17:2

“Surely there are mockers and mockery with me,
And my eye gazes on their obstinacy and provocation.
Isaiah 28:22

Now 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 6:7
Do 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.

General references

Matthew 27:41
In the same way the chief priests also, along with the scribes and elders, mocked Him, saying,