Would it be well when He searches you out? Or could you deceive Him as one deceives a man?
With Him are strength and ability. The misled and the misleader are His.
But man dies and is powerless, and man expires, and where is he?
Truly, mockeries are with me, and my eye rests on their insults!
Would that Iyoḇ be tried to the end, since his answers are like those of wicked men!
Search me, O Ěl, and know my heart; Try me, and know my thoughts;
Would Elohim not search this out? For He knows the secrets of the heart.
And now, do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Master יהוה of hosts, a destruction decreed upon all the earth.
“I, יהוה, search the heart, I try the kidneys, and give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.