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Job 13:9
Job 13:9 is verse 9 of Job chapter 13, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?
King James Version
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
World English Bible
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
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Job 13:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible
7 Will you speak wickedly on God’s behalf or speak deceitfully for Him?
8 Would you show Him partiality or argue in His defense?
9 Would it be well when He examined you? Could you deceive Him like a man?
10 Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
11 Would His majesty not terrify you? Would the dread of Him not fall upon you?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Job 34:36If only Job were tried to the utmost for answering like a wicked man.
Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
Jeremiah 17:10I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
Job 17:2Surely mockers surround me, and my eyes must gaze at their rebellion.
Isaiah 28:22So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
Galatians 6:7Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return.
Galatians 6:8The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.