Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
World English Bible Classic
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, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up,’
29I will be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?
Cross References
Exodus 20:7“You shall not misuse the name of the LORD your God, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who misuses his name.
Job 7:21Why do you not pardon my disobedience, and take away my iniquity? For now will I lie down in the dust. You will seek me diligently, but I will not be.”
Job 9:20Though I am righteous, my own mouth will condemn me. Though I am blameless, it will prove me perverse.
Job 14:16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
Job 33:10Behold, he finds occasions against me. He counts me for his enemy.
Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid 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 →