Verse 9

Would it be well when He examines you? Could you deceive Him as you deceive a mortal?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, the LORD, search the heart and test the mind, to give each person according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Do not be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows, that they will also reap. 8 The one who sows to their flesh will reap decay from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the Spirit.
  • Job 12:16 : 16 "With Him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are His."
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely mockers are with me, and my eye must dwell on their provocations.
  • Job 34:36 : 36 I wish that Job might be tested to the end for answering like wicked men.
  • Ps 44:21 : 21 If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 Now do not mock, or your chains will be even heavier, for I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.