9 Is `it' good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?
I Jehovah do search the heart, try the reins, Even to give to each according to his way, According to the fruit of his doings.
Be not led astray; God is not mocked; for what a man may sow -- that also he shall reap, because he who is sowing to his own flesh, of the flesh shall reap corruption; and he who is sowing to the Spirit, of the Spirit shall reap life age-during;
If not -- mockeries `are' with me. And in their provocations mine eye lodgeth.
My Father! let Job be tried -- unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,
Search me, O 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,