9 Will it be well if he should search you out? or as one mocketh at a man, will ye mock at him?
I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give each one according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Be not deceived: God is not mocked; for whatever a man shall sow, that also shall he reap. For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life:
Are there not mockers around me? and doth [not] mine eye abide in their provocation?
Would that Job may be tried unto the end, because of [his] answers after the manner of evil men!
Search me, O ùGod, and know my heart; prove me, and know my thoughts;
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Commentary on Job 13 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 13
Job here comes to make application of what he had said in the foregoing chapter; and now we have him not in so good a temper as he was in then: for,
Job 13:1-12
Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends.
Job 13:13-22
Job here takes fresh hold, fast hold, of his integrity, as one that was resolved not to let it go, nor suffer it to be wrested from him. His firmness in this matter is commendable and his warmth excusable.
Job 13:23-28
Here,