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Job 9:28
28I would still dread all the pain, for I know you will not find me innocent, O God.
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
26It disappears like a swift papyrus boat, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. 27If I decided to forget my complaints, to put away my sad face and be cheerful, I would still dread all the pain, for I know you will not find me innocent, O God. 29Whatever happens, I will be found guilty. So what’s the use of trying? 30Even if I were to wash myself with soap and clean my hands with lye,
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 21:6When I think about what I am saying, I shudder. My body trembles.
- Psalms 88:15I have been sick and close to death since my youth. I stand helpless and desperate before your terrors.
- Psalms 119:120I tremble in fear of you; I stand in awe of your regulations.
- Job 9:2“Yes, I know all this is true in principle. But how can a person be declared innocent in God’s sight?
- Job 14:16For then you would guard my steps, instead of watching for my sins.
- Exodus 20:7“You must not misuse the name of the Lord your God. The Lord will not let you go unpunished if you misuse his name.
- Psalms 130:3Lord, if you kept a record of our sins, who, O Lord, could ever survive?
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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