Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 13:9

9. Is it good that he should search you out ? or as one mocketh another, do ye so mock him ?

Will it be to your Credit and Comfort?

i. e. Narrowly examine your Hearts and discourses, whether you have uttered Truth or Falshood; and whether your Speeches proceed from true Zeal for God, or from your own Prejudices and Passions, and from a desire to curry Favour with him.

To wit, by covering your uncharitableness and corrupt affections with pretences of Piet[illegible: 1+ letters], as if God could not discern your Artifices; or by pleading his Cause with weak and foolish Arguments, which is a kind of Mockery to him, and an Injury to his Cause; or by seeking to flatter him with false Praises, as if he did distribute the things of this world with exact Justice, prospering only the good, and severely afflicting none but wicked Men.