9 Is it good that he should search you out? Or as one deceives a man, will you deceive him?
I, Yahweh, search the mind, I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Don't be deceived. God is not mocked, for whatever a man sows, that will he also reap. For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Surely there are mockers with me, My eye dwells on their provocation.
I wish that Job were tried to the end, Because of his answering like wicked men.
Search me, God, and know my heart. Try 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,