Job 13:9
Good News Translation
If God looks at you closely, will he find anything good? Do you think you can fool God the way you fool others?

New Revised Standard Version
Will it be well with you when he searches you out? Or can you deceive him, as one person deceives another?

Contemporary English Version
If he took you to court, could you fool him, just as you fool others?

New American Bible
Will it be well when he shall search you out? Can you deceive him as you do a mere human being?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?

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Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?

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Job 34:36 My father, let Job be tried even to the end: cease not from the man of iniquity.

Psalm 44:21 If we have forgotten the name of our God, and if we have spread forth our hands to a strange god:

Psalm 139:23 Prove me, O God, and know my heart: examine me, and know my paths.

Jeremiah 17:10 I am the Lord who search the heart, and prove the reins: who give to every one according to his way, and according to the fruit of his devices.

Jeremiah 17:2 When their children shall remember their altars, and their groves, and their green trees upon the high mountains,

Isaiah 28:22 And now do not mock, lest your bonds be tied strait. For I have heard of the Lord the God of hosts a consumption and a cutting short upon all the earth.

Galatians 6:7,8 Be not deceived: God is not mocked. . . .

Context
Job Reproves His Friends
8Do you accept this person, and do you endeavour to judge for God? 9Or shall it please him, from whom nothing can be concealed? or shall he be deceived as a man, with your deceitful dealings?10He shall reprove you, because in secret you accept his person.…
Cross References
Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived: God is not mocked.

Job 12:16
With him is strength and wisdom: he knoweth both the deceivers, and him that is deceived.

Job 14:10
But man when he shall be dead, and stripped and consumed, I pray you where is he?

Job 13:8
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