Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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?
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?
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 to him? Will you plead God's case? 9 Will things go well for you under his cross-examination? Can you lie to him, as you would to a human being? 10 "He will be sure to rebuke you, if you show partiality in secret.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:16
"With God are strength and sound wisdom; both the deceived and those who deceive are responsible to him.
Job 17:2
Mockers surround me; I cannot stop staring at their hostility all through the night.
Job 34:36
Oh, how Job needs to be given a full court trial, as a rebuke to those who practice evil,
Psalm 44:21
wouldn't God find out since he knows the secrets of the heart?
Psalm 139:23
Examine me, God, and know my mind, test me, and know my thoughts.
Isaiah 28:22
But as for you, don't start mocking, or your chains will become tighter; for I have heard from the LORD of the Heavenly Armies about destruction, and it is decreed against the whole land.
Jeremiah 17:10
I am the LORD who searches the heart, who tests the inner depths to give to each person according to what he deserves, according to the fruit of his deeds.
Galatians 6:7-8
Stop being deceived; God is not to be ridiculed. A person harvests whatever he plants: