With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 13:9 - Revised Standard Version Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one deceives a man? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him? Common English Bible Will it go well when he searches you, or can you fool him as you fool people? Catholic Public Domain Version Or, will it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? Or, will he be deceived, like a man, by your deceitfulness? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? Or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings? |
With him are strength and wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
But man dies, and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
Surely there are mockers about me, and my eye dwells on their provocation.
Would that Job were tried to the end, because he answers like wicked men.
Now therefore do not scoff, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord God of hosts upon the whole land.
“I the Lord search the mind and try the heart, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”