Job 9:28
I have dreaded all my works, knowing that you did not spare the offender.
Catholic Public Domain 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: “By no means will I speak this way.” I change my face and I am tortured with sorrow.
29Yet, if I am also just as impious, why have I labored in vain?
Cross References
Exodus 20:7You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. For the Lord will not hold harmless one who takes the name of the Lord his God falsely.
Job 7:21Why do you not steal away my sin, and why do you not sweep away my iniquity? Behold, now I will sleep in the dust, and if you seek me in the morning, I will not remain.
Job 9:20If I wanted to justify myself, my own mouth will condemn me; if I would reveal my innocence, he would prove me depraved.
Job 14:16Indeed, you have numbered my steps, but you have been lenient with my sins.
Job 33:10Yet he has discovered blame in me, and so he has treated me like his enemy.
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 →