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# Connecting Statement:
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Job continues to speak to his friends.
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# Will it be good for you when he searches you out?
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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]])
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# Could you deceive him as you might deceive men?
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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]])
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