New Living Translation
Job 10:14
14was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt.
Job 10:14 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
- New International Version (NIV)If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.
- English Standard Version (ESV)If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
- New King James Version (NKJV)If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity.
Context of Job 10:14
12You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care. 13“‘Yet your real motive— your true intent— was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt. 15If I am guilty, too bad for me; and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high, because I am filled with shame and misery. 16And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion and display your awesome power against me.
Read all of Job 10Job 10:14 word by word
אִם־חָטָ֥אתִי וּשְׁמַרְתָּ֑נִי וּ֝מֵעֲוֹנִ֗י לֹ֣א תְנַקֵּֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 10:14
- Job 13:26“You write bitter accusations against me and bring up all the sins of my youth.
- Job 14:16For then you would guard my steps, instead of watching for my sins.
- Psalms 130:3Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?
- Psalms 139:1O Lord, you have examined my heart and know everything about me.
- Job 7:21Why not just forgive my sin and take away my guilt? For soon I will lie down in the dust and die. When you look for me, I will be gone.”
- Exodus 34:7I lavish unfailing love to a thousand generations. I forgive iniquity, rebellion, and sin. But I do not excuse the guilty. I lay the sins of the parents upon their children and grandchildren; the entire family is affected— even children in the third and fourth generations.”
- Numbers 14:18‘The Lord is slow to anger and filled with unfailing love, forgiving every kind of sin and rebellion. But he does not excuse the guilty. He lays the sins of the parents upon their children; the entire family is affected—even children in the third and fourth generations.’
Commentaries on Job 10:14
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14If I sin - From thee nothing can be hidden; if I sin, thou takest account of the transgression, and canst not hold me for innocent when thou knowest I am guilty.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 14If I sin - The object of this verse and the following is, evidently, to say that he was wholly perplexed. He did not know how to act. He could not understand the reason of the divine dealings, and he was wholly unable to explain them, and hence, he did not know how to act in a proper manner. It is expressive of a state of mind where the individual wishes to think and feel right, but where he finds so much to perplex him, that he does not know what to do…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 14-22Verses 14-22 Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 14-1514-15. Job is perplexed because God "marks" every sin of his with such ceaseless rigor. Whether "wicked" (godless and a hypocrite) or "righteous" (comparatively sincere), God condemns and punishes alike.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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