Job 13:9

13:9 Would it turn out well if he would examine19 you?

Or as one deceives20 a man would you deceive him?

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19	tn The verb חָפַר (khafar) means “to search out, investigate, examine.” In the conditional clause the imperfect verb expresses the hypothetical case.
20	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.