Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
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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?
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
Are ye to bring honour unto him? Are ye to contend for God?
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Cross References
Job 12:16
With him is strength and existence; he who errs and he who leads astray are his.
Job 17:2
Now there are only mockers with me, upon whose bitterness my eye continues to gaze.
Job 34:36
My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end, that there may be answers against wicked men.
Psalm 44:21
shall not God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my thoughts
Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore do not be mockers lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of the hosts that consumption and destruction are determined upon the whole earth.
Jeremiah 17:10
I the LORD search the heart; I try the kidneys, even to give each man according to his ways and according to the fruit of his doings.
Galatians 6:7-8
Do not deceive yourselves; God is not mocked: for whatever a man sows that shall he also reap.