Job 9:28
I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
Majority Standard Bible
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 were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
29Since I am already found guilty, why should I labor in vain?
Cross References
Exodus 20:7You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.
Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
Job 9:20Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty.
Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
Job 33:10Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of 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 →