Job 9:28

I would be afraid of all my sorrows 1 because I know that you will not consider me innocent. 1

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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 said that I would forget about my complaints, 1 that I would take off my sad face and be happy, 1

29I will be condemned; 1 why, then, should I try in vain? 1

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Cross References

Exodus 20:7You must not take the name of Yahweh your God, in vain, for I will not hold guiltless anyone who takes my name in vain.

Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? 1 For now will I lie down in the dust; 1 you will seek me carefully, but I will not exist.”

Job 9:20Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; 1 and though I am blameless, my words would prove me to be guilty. 1

Job 14:16You would number and care for my footsteps; 1 you would not keep track of my sin. 1

Job 33:10See, God finds opportunities to attack me; 1 he regards me as his enemy. 1

Psalms 119:120My body trembles in fear of you, 1 and I am afraid of your righteous decrees. AYIN 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 →

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