New English Translation
Job 10:6
6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,
Job 10:6 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
- New International Version (NIV)that you must search out my faults and probe after my sin—
- English Standard Version (ESV)that you seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
- New King James Version (NKJV)That You should seek for my iniquity And search out my sin,
Context of Job 10:6
4“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees? 5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal, that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin, 7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand? 8“Your hands have shaped me and made me, but now you destroy me completely.
Read all of Job 10Job 10:6 word by word
כִּֽי־תְבַקֵּ֥שׁ לַעֲוֹנִ֑י וּ֭לְחַטָּאתִ֥י תִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 10:6
- Job 10:14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
- Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evil man! Hold him accountable for his wicked deeds, which he thought you would not discover.
- Psalms 44:21would not God discover it, for he knows one’s thoughts?
- Jeremiah 2:34Even your clothes are stained with the lifeblood of the poor who had not done anything wrong; you did not catch them breaking into your homes. Yet, in spite of all these things you have done,
- Zephaniah 1:12At that time I will search through Jerusalem with lamps. I will punish the people who are entrenched in their sin, those who think to themselves, ‘The Lord neither rewards nor punishes.’
- John 2:24But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5So then, do not judge anything before the time. Wait until the Lord comes. He will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and reveal the motives of hearts. Then each will receive recognition from God.
Commentaries on Job 10:6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6That thou inquirest - Is it becoming thy infinite dignity to concern thyself so much with the affairs or transgressions of a despicable mortal? A word spoken in the heart of most sinners.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6That thou inquirest after mine iniquity - Art thou governed by hu man passions and prejudices, that thou dost thus seem to search out every little obliquity and error? Job here evidently refers to the conduct of man in strictly marking faults, and in being unwilling to forgive; and he asks whether it is possible that God could be governed by such feelings as these.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. Dost Thou see as feebly as man? that is, with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job's friends? Is Thy time as short? Impossible! Yet one might think, from the rapid succession of Thy strokes, that Thou hadst no time to spare in overwhelming me.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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