English Standard Version
Job 13:23
23How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
Job 13:23 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
- New International Version (NIV)How many wrongs and sins have I committed? Show me my offense and my sin.
- New King James Version (NKJV)How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Tell me, what have I done wrong? Show me my rebellion and my sin.
Context of Job 13:23
21withdraw your hand far from me, and let not dread of you terrify me. 22Then call, and I will answer; or let me speak, and you reply to me. How many are my iniquities and my sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin. 24Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy? 25Will you frighten a driven leaf and pursue dry chaff?
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כַּמָּ֣ה לִ֭י עֲוֹנ֣וֹת וְחַטָּא֑וֹת פִּֽשְׁעִ֥י וְ֝חַטָּאתִ֗י הֹדִיעֵֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 13:23
- Job 22:5Is not your evil abundant? There is no end to your iniquities.
- Psalms 44:20If we had forgotten the name of our God or spread out our hands to a foreign god,
- Job 36:8And if they are bound in chains and caught in the cords of affliction,
- Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts!
Commentaries on Job 13:23
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 23How many are mine iniquities - Job being permitted to begin first, enters immediately upon the subject; and as it was a fact that he was grievously afflicted, and this his friends asserted was in consequence of grievous iniquities, he first desires to have them specified. What are the specific charges in this indictment? To say I must be a sinner to be thus afflicted, is saying nothing; tell me what are the sins, and show me the proofs.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 23How many are mine iniquities and sins? - Job takes the place of the plaintiff or accuser. He opens the cause. He appeals to God to state the catalogue of his crimes, or to bring forward his charges of guilt against him. The meaning, according to Schultens, is, “That catalogue ought to be great which has called down so many and so great calamities upon my head from heaven, when I am conscious to myself of being guilty of no offence.” God sorely afflicted…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 23-28Verses 23-28 Job begs to have his sins discovered to him. A true penitent is willing to know the worst of himself; and we should all desire to know what our transgressions are, that we may confess them, and guard against them for the future. Job complains sorrowfully of God's severe dealings with him. Time does not wear out the guilt of sin. When God writes bitter things against us, his design is to make us bring forgotten sins to mind, and so to bring us…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 22-23Job wanted God to call or summon him, so Job could defend himself. Or as an alternative, Job would speak to God. Then God would respond with the charges against Job. Since God did not choose the first option, Job started the second one (13:23). Eventually, God did call Job (38:1–3; 40:1–2). But Job could not reply (40:3–5).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2323. The catalogue of my sins ought to be great, to judge from the severity with which God ever anew crushes one already bowed down. Would that He would reckon them up! He then would see how much my calamities outnumber them. sin?--singular, "I am unconscious of a single particular sin, much less many" [Umbreit].Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 13
- 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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