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Job 9:28
28Even then, I will be afraid of all my pain. God, I know that you think I am guilty.
Job 9:28 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
- New International Version (NIV)I still dread all my sufferings, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
- English Standard Version (ESV)I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.
- New King James Version (NKJV)I am afraid of all my sufferings; I know that You will not hold me innocent.
Context of Job 9:28
26My days go past like a fast boat on a river. They move quickly like an eagle when it flies down to catch its food. 27I may try to be happy and to smile. I may try to forget about my troubles. Even then, I will be afraid of all my pain. God, I know that you think I am guilty. 29So, if I am guilty, it is useless to do anything about it. 30I might wash myself with pure water. I might clean my hands with soap.
Read all of Job 9Job 9:28 word by word
יָגֹ֥רְתִּי כָל־עַצְּבֹתָ֑י יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּי־לֹ֥א תְנַקֵּֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 9:28
- Job 21:6I think about what has happened to me. It makes me very afraid. My body shakes with fear.
- Psalms 88:15Since I was young, I have been in pain. I have always been near to death. You have caused bad troubles to frighten me, so that I feel helpless.
- Psalms 119:120I respect your great strength, so that my body shakes with fear. I am afraid of the laws by which you judge people.
- Job 9:2‘The things that you have said are true. But nobody can show God that he is completely good.
- Job 14:16You would watch me carefully, but you would not make a note of my sins.
- Exodus 20:7You must not speak the name of the Lord your God in a wrong way. The Lord will punish anyone who speaks his name in a wrong way.
- Psalms 130:3Lord, if you should write down all our sins, nobody could stand as a righteous person.
Commentaries on Job 9:28
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28I am afraid of all my sorrows - Coverdale translates, after the Vulgate, Then am I afrayed of all my workes. Even were I to cease from complaining, I fear lest not one of my works, however well intentioned, would stand thy scrutiny, or meet with thy approbation. Thou wilt not hold me innocent - Coverdale, after the Vulgate, For I knowe thou favourest not an evil doer; but this is not the sense of the original: Thou wilt not acquit me so as to take away my…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28I am afraid of all my sorrows - My fears return. I dread the continuance of my griefs, and cannot close my eye to them. Thou wilt not hold me innocent - God will not remove my sorrows so as to furnish the evidence that I am innocent. My sufferings continue, and with them continue all the evidence on which my friends rely that I am a guilty man. In such a state of things, how can I be otherwise than sad? He was held to be guilty; he was suffering in such a…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-35Verses 25-35 What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and would not relent, was the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28The word "You" shows this is a prayer, even though, "O God," is not plainly stated in Hebrew.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. The apodosis to Job 9:27--"If I say, &c." "I still am afraid of all my sorrows (returning), for I know that thou wilt (dost) (by removing my sufferings) not hold or declare me innocent. How then can I leave off my heaviness?"Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 9
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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