Job 9:28
I have been afraid of all my griefs, || I have known that You do not acquit me.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
In Context
27Though I say, I forget my talking, || I forsake my corner, and I brighten up!
29I become wicked; why [is] this? I labor [in] vain.
Cross References
Exodus 20:7You do not take up the Name of your God YHWH for a vain thing, for YHWH does not acquit him who takes up His Name for a vain thing.
Job 7:21You do not take away my transgression, || And [do not] cause my iniquity to pass away, || Because now, I lie down in dust, || And You have sought me—and I am not!”
Job 9:20If I am righteous, my mouth declares me wicked; [If] I am perfect, it declares me perverse.
Job 14:16But now, You number my steps, || You do not watch over my sin.
Job 33:10Behold, He develops hindrances against me, || He reckons me for an enemy to Him,
Psalms 119:120My flesh has trembled from Your fear, || And I have been afraid from Your 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 →