Christian Standard Bible
Job 10:7
7even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power?
Job 10:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
- New International Version (NIV)though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?
- English Standard Version (ESV)although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
Context of Job 10:7
5Are your days like those of a human, or your years like those of a man, 6that you look for my iniquity and search for my sin, even though you know that I am not wicked and that there is no one who can rescue from your power? 8“Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will you now turn and destroy me? 9Please remember that you formed me like clay. Will you now return me to dust?
Read all of Job 10Job 10:7 word by word
עַֽל־דַּ֭עְתְּךָ כִּי־לֹ֣א אֶרְשָׁ֑ע וְאֵ֖ין מִיָּדְךָ֣ מַצִּֽיל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 10:7
- Job 23:10Yet he knows the way I have taken; when he has tested me, I will emerge as pure gold.
- Job 31:6let God weigh me on accurate scales, and he will recognize my integrity.
- Job 42:7After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “I am angry with you and your two friends, for you have not spoken the truth about me, as my servant Job has.
- Psalms 1:6For the Lord watches over the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked leads to ruin.
- Psalms 7:3Lord my God, if I have done this, if there is injustice on my hands,
- Psalms 17:3You have tested my heart; you have examined me at night. You have tried me and found nothing evil; I have determined that my mouth will not sin.
- Psalms 26:1Vindicate me, Lord, because I have lived with integrity and have trusted in the Lord without wavering.
- Psalms 139:1Lord, you have searched me and known me.
- John 21:17He asked him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved that he asked him the third time, “Do you love me?” He said, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” “Feed my sheep,” Jesus said.
- 2 Corinthians 1:12Indeed, this is our boast: The testimony of our conscience is that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially toward you, with godly sincerity and purity, not by human wisdom but by God’s grace.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:10You are witnesses, and so is God, of how devoutly, righteously, and blamelessly we conducted ourselves with you believers.
- Job 23:13But he is unchangeable; who can oppose him? He does what he desires.
- Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I alone am he; there is no God but me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal. No one can rescue anyone from my power.
- Psalms 50:22“Understand this, you who forget God, or I will tear you apart, and there will be no one to rescue you.
- Daniel 3:15Now if you’re ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, drum, and every kind of music, fall down and worship the statue I made. But if you don’t worship it, you will immediately be thrown into a furnace of blazing fire — and who is the god who can rescue you from my power?”
- Hosea 2:10Now I will expose her shame in the sight of her lovers, and no one will rescue her from my power.
Commentaries on Job 10:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Thou knowest that I am not wicked - While thou hast this knowledge of me and my conduct, why appear to be sifting me as if in order to find out sin; and though none can be found, treating me as though I were a transgressor?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Thou knowest that I am not wicked - That is, that I am not a hypocrite, or an impenitent sinner. Job did not claim perfection (see the note at Job 9:20), but he maintained through all this argument that he was not a wicked man, in the sense in which his friends regarded him as such, and for the truth of this he could boldly appeal to God. The margin is, “It is upon thy knowledge.” This is a literal translation of the Hebrew, but the sense is well…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. "Although Thou (the Omniscient) knowest," &c. (connected with Job 10:6), "Thou searchest after my sin." and ... that none that can deliver out of thine hand--Therefore Thou hast no need to deal with me with the rapid violence which man would use (see Job 10:6).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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