Job 13:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 17:10 : 10 I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
  • Gal 6:7-8 : 7 Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
  • Job 12:16 : 16 With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.
  • Job 17:2 : 2 Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.
  • Job 34:36 : 36 I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.
  • Ps 44:21 : 21 won't God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
  • Ps 139:23 : 23 Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
  • Isa 28:22 : 22 Now therefore don't be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.

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    3Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

    4Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?

    5Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

    6that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?

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    3Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that you are righteous? Or does it benefit him, that you make your ways perfect?

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    11Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word that is gentle toward you?

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    17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

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  • 5If indeed you will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach;

  • 5Whoever mocks the poor reproaches his Maker. He who is glad at calamity shall not be unpunished.

  • 3You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

  • 2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

  • 23If the scourge kills suddenly, he will mock at the trial of the innocent.

  • 13Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom, God may refute him, not man;'

  • 26I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

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  • 9Will God hear his cry when trouble comes on him?

  • 13Why do you strive against him, because he doesn't give account of any of his matters?

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  • 8Will you even annul my judgment? Will you condemn me, that you may be justified?

  • 9Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.

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