Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that thou will not hold me innocent.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
In Context
27If I say, I will forget my complaint. I will put off my [sad] countenance, and be of good cheer,
29I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
Cross References
Exodus 20:7Thou shall not take the name of LORD thy God in vain, for LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Job 7:21And why do thou not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I shall lay down in the dust, and thou will seek me diligently, but I shall not be.
Job 9:20Though I be righteous, my own mouth shall condemn me. Though I be perfect, it shall prove me perverse.
Job 14:16But now thou number my steps. Do thou not watch over my sin?
Job 33:10[Thou say,] Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of thee, and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:26-35
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor… Read the whole commentary →