Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Or
King James Version
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
Holman Bible
Could you deceive Him as you would deceive a man?
International Standard Version
Will things go well for you under his cross-examination? Can you lie to him, as you would to a human being?
A Conservative Version
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as deceiving a man, will ye deceive him?
American Standard Version
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceiveth a man, will ye deceive him?
Amplified
“Will it be well for you when He investigates you [and your tactics against me]?
Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?
Bible in Basic English
Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?
Darby Translation
Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
Julia Smith Translation
Is it good that he shall search you out?, or as he mocking against a man; will ye mock against him?
King James 2000
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocks another, do you so mock him?
Lexham Expanded Bible
[Will it be] well, if he examines you? Or can you deceive him like deceiving a human being?
Modern King James verseion
Is it good that He should search you out? Or as one man mocks another, do you mock Him?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Shall that help you, when he calleth you to reckoning? Think ye to beguile him, as a man is beguiled?
NET Bible
Would it turn out well if he would examine you? Or as one deceives a man would you deceive him?
New Heart English Bible
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
The Emphasized Bible
Would it be well, when he searched you out? Or, as one might jest with a mortal, would ye jest, with him?
Webster
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is it good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
Interlinear
Chaqar
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 13:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Fourth Speech Continues
8
Will you contend for God?
Or
If you secretly
Names
Cross References
Job 12:16
The
Job 17:2
And my eye
Job 34:36
Because he answers
Psalm 44:21
For He knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalm 139:23
Isaiah 28:22
Or your fetters will be made stronger;
For I have heard from the Lord
Of decisive
Jeremiah 17:10
I test the
Even
According to the
Galatians 6:7-8