# Connecting Statement:

Job continues to speak to his friends.

# Will it be good for you when he searches you out?

Here "searches you out" is a metaphor meaning "examines you." Job uses this question to warn his friends that if God were to examine them, he would say that what they are doing is wrong. AT: "When God examines you, it will not be good for you." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])

# Could you deceive him as you might deceive men?

Job uses this question to warn his friends that God knows the truth about them. AT: "You might be able to deceive men, but you cannot deceive God." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]])