Job 9:28
I quake in all my limbs, 1 For I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
In Context
27And if I should say, I will forget to speak, 1 I will bow down my face and groan; 1
29But since I am ungodly, why have I not died? 1
Cross References
Exodus 20:7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord thy God will not acquit him that takes his name in vain.
Job 7:21Why hast thou not forgotten my iniquity, 1 And purged my sin? 1 But now I shall depart to the earth; 1 And in the morning, I am no more.
Job 9:20For though I should seem righteous, my mouth will be profane: 1 And though I should seem blameless, I shall be proved perverse. 1
Job 14:16But thou hast numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape thee? 1
Job 33:10Yet he has discovered a charge against me, 1 And he has reckoned me as an adversary. 1
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 →