Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
I wish that Iyov were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, the LORD of Armies, on the whole earth.
I, the LORD, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.