9Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
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Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. …
I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Job here warmly expresses his resentment of the unkindness of his friends. I. He comes up with them as one that understood the matter in dispute as well as they, and did not need to be taught by them, Job 13:1 , 2 . They compelled him, as the Corinthians did Paul, to commend himself and his own knowledge, yet not in a way of self-applause, but of self-justification. All he had before said his eye…
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