Job 13:9
Verse 9 of 28. The 13th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
5O that ye would altogether hold your peace! and it should be your wisdom.
6Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.
7Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
8Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
10He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
11Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall upon you?
12Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
13Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.
Job 13:9 in the World English Bible
Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?Read Job 13:9 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 13:9
Consider, (1.) The strictness of his scrutiny and enquiries concerning them (v. 9) "Is it good that he should search you out? Can you bear to have the principles looked into which you go upon in your censures, and to have the bottom of the matter found out?" Note, It concerns us all seriously to consider whether it will be to our advantage or no that God searches the heart.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 13:1–12: Job's Reply to Zophar. (b. c. 1520.)
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