Job 13:9

Would it turn out well if he would examine ¹  you? Or as one deceives ²  a man would you deceive him?

Job 17:2; Job 34:36; Ps 44:21; Ps 139:23; Isa 28:22; Jer 17:10; Ga 6:7,8

¹ tn The verb חָפַר (khafar) means “to search out, investigate, examine.” In the conditional clause the imperfect verb expresses the hypothetical case.

² tn Both the infinitive and the imperfect of תָּלַל (talal, “deceive, mock”) retain the ה (he) (GKC 148 §53.q). But for the alternate form, see F. C. Fensham, “The Stem HTL in Hebrew,” VT 9 (1959): 310-11. The infinitive is used here in an adverbial sense after the preposition.