Job 13:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him as one person deceives another?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Would it be profitable for you if He should investigate your tactics [with me]? Or as one deceives and mocks a man, do you deceive and mock Him?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?

Common English Bible

⁹ Will it go well when he searches you, or can you fool him as you fool people?

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ Or, will it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? Or, will he be deceived, like a man, by your deceitfulness?

Job 13:9 Cross References

Jeremiah 17:10

I the Lord test the mind and search the heart, to give to all according to their ways, according to the fruit of their doings.

Psalm 44:21

would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Isaiah 28:22

Now therefore do not scoff, or your bonds will be made stronger, for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.

Psalm 139:23

Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts.

Job 34:36

Would that Job were tried to the limit, because his answers are those of the wicked.

Job 17:2

Surely there are mockers around me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.

Job 12:16

With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.

Job 14:10

But mortals die and are laid low; humans expire, and where are they?