⁹ What will happen when he finds out what you are doing?
    Can you fool him as easily as you fool people?

¹⁰ But I, the Lord, search all hearts
    and examine secret motives.
I give all people their due rewards,
    according to what their actions deserve.”

²¹ God would surely have known it,
    for he knows the secrets of every heart.

²² For the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
    has plainly said that he is determined to crush the whole land.
So scoff no more,
    or your punishment will be even greater.

²³ Search me, O God, and know my heart;
    test me and know my anxious thoughts.

³⁶ Job, you deserve the maximum penalty
    for the wicked way you have talked.

¹⁶ Yes, strength and wisdom are his;
    deceivers and deceived are both in his power.