Job 13:9

WEB

⁹Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?

KJV

⁹Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?

BSB

⁹Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?

FBV

⁹Will you be found to be doing good when God examines you? Can you fool him as if he's a human being?

Extra References

Galatians 6:7-8

⁷Don’t be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. ⁸For 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.

Jeremiah 17:10

¹⁰“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.”

Psalms 44:21

²¹won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Job 17:2

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

Job 12:16

¹⁶With him is strength and wisdom. The deceived and the deceiver are his.

Job 34:36

³⁶I wish that Job were tried to the end, because of his answering like wicked men.

Psalms 139:23

²³Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.

Isaiah 28:22

²²Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, GOD ^[+] of Armies, on the whole earth.