Parallel Verses
King James Version
Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
New American Standard Bible
Or
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 ye accept his person? will ye contend for God? 9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him? 10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
Names
Cross References
Job 12:16
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 17:2
Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?
Job 34:36
My desire is that Job may be tried unto the end because of his answers for wicked men.
Psalm 44:21
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Psalm 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Isaiah 28:22
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
Jeremiah 17:10
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Galatians 6:7-8
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.