Parallel Verses
Amplified
“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?
New American Standard Bible
Or
King James Version
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Holman Bible
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?
International Standard Version
Will things go well for you under his cross-examination? Can you lie to him, as you would to a human being?
A Conservative Version
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
American Standard Version
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
Bible in Basic English
Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?
Darby Translation
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
Julia Smith Translation
Is it good that he shall search you out?, or as he mocking against a man; will ye mock against him?
King James 2000
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?
Modern King James verseion
Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall that help you, when he calleth you to reckoning? Think ye to beguile him, as a man is beguiled?
NET Bible
Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
New Heart English Bible
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
The Emphasized Bible
Would it be well, when he searched you out? Or, as one might jest with a mortal, would ye jest, with him?
Webster
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
World English Bible
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
Interlinear
Chaqar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech Continues
8
“Will 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?
“He will surely reprimand you
If you secretly show partiality.
Names
Cross References
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
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.