diff --git a/pkg/registry/batch/job/strategy.go b/pkg/registry/batch/job/strategy.go
index d0b9f4f3d8a..a24f88fc7a6 100644
--- a/pkg/registry/batch/job/strategy.go
+++ b/pkg/registry/batch/job/strategy.go
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ func validationOptionsForJob(newJob, oldJob *batch.Job) batchvalidation.JobValid
 		notStarted := oldJob.Status.StartTime == nil
 		opts.AllowMutableSchedulingDirectives = suspended && notStarted
 		if utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate.Enabled(features.MutablePodResourcesForSuspendedJobs) {
-			opts.AllowMutablePodResources = batchvalidation.IsConditionTrue(oldJob.Status.Conditions, batch.JobSuspended) && oldJob.Status.Active == 0
+			opts.AllowMutablePodResources = suspended && batchvalidation.IsConditionTrue(oldJob.Status.Conditions, batch.JobSuspended) && oldJob.Status.Active == 0
 		}
 		if utilfeature.DefaultFeatureGate.Enabled(features.MutableSchedulingDirectivesForSuspendedJobs) {
 			opts.AllowMutableSchedulingDirectives = suspended && batchvalidation.IsConditionTrue(oldJob.Status.Conditions, batch.JobSuspended) && oldJob.Status.Active == 0
diff --git a/pkg/registry/batch/job/strategy_test.go b/pkg/registry/batch/job/strategy_test.go
index 58da8cd5a57..deafa30ef5c 100644
--- a/pkg/registry/batch/job/strategy_test.go
+++ b/pkg/registry/batch/job/strategy_test.go
@@ -1447,6 +1447,40 @@ func TestJobStrategy_ValidateUpdate_MutablePodResources(t *testing.T) {
 				{Type: field.ErrorTypeInvalid, Field: "spec.template.spec"},
 			},
 		},
+		"feature gate enabled - job resuming (suspend=false) but JobSuspended condition still true - resource updates rejected": {
+			enableFeatureGate: true,
+			job: &batch.Job{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+					Name:            "myjob",
+					Namespace:       metav1.NamespaceDefault,
+					ResourceVersion: "0",
+				},
+				Spec: batch.JobSpec{
+					Selector:       validSelector,
+					Template:       validPodTemplateSpec,
+					ManualSelector: ptr.To(true),
+					Parallelism:    ptr.To[int32](1),
+					Suspend:        ptr.To(false),
+				},
+				Status: batch.JobStatus{
+					Active: 0,
+					Conditions: []batch.JobCondition{
+						{
+							Type:   batch.JobSuspended,
+							Status: api.ConditionStatus(metav1.ConditionTrue),
+						},
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			update: func(job *batch.Job) {
+				job.Spec.Template.Spec.Containers[0].Resources.Requests = api.ResourceList{
+					api.ResourceCPU: resource.MustParse("200m"),
+				}
+			},
+			wantErrs: field.ErrorList{
+				{Type: field.ErrorTypeInvalid, Field: "spec.template"},
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	for name, tc := range cases {
@@ -4251,6 +4285,40 @@ func TestJobStrategy_ValidateUpdate_MutableSchedulingDirectives(t *testing.T) {
 				{Type: field.ErrorTypeInvalid, Field: "spec.template"},
 			},
 		},
+		"feature gate enabled - job resuming (suspend=false) but JobSuspended condition still true - scheduling directives update rejected": {
+			enableFeatureGate: true,
+			job: &batch.Job{
+				ObjectMeta: metav1.ObjectMeta{
+					Name:            "myjob",
+					Namespace:       metav1.NamespaceDefault,
+					ResourceVersion: "0",
+				},
+				Spec: batch.JobSpec{
+					Selector:       validSelector,
+					Template:       validPodTemplateSpec,
+					ManualSelector: ptr.To(true),
+					Parallelism:    ptr.To[int32](1),
+					Suspend:        ptr.To(false),
+				},
+				Status: batch.JobStatus{
+					Active: 0,
+					Conditions: []batch.JobCondition{
+						{
+							Type:   batch.JobSuspended,
+							Status: api.ConditionStatus(metav1.ConditionTrue),
+						},
+					},
+				},
+			},
+			update: func(job *batch.Job) {
+				job.Spec.Template.Spec.NodeSelector = map[string]string{
+					"key": "value",
+				}
+			},
+			wantErrs: field.ErrorList{
+				{Type: field.ErrorTypeInvalid, Field: "spec.template"},
+			},
+		},
 	}
 
 	for name, tc := range cases {