Job 10:6
in Job 10that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,
KJV
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
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This verse in Job 10
Commentary
10 notes on this verseHe continues, "That you should interrogate me about my evildoing and examine my sin," to investigate through tribulations if I have sinned in my work or am evil in my thought, like men investigate criminal guilt using torture.
This site's exposition
Are Your days like those of a mortal
on Job 10:5-7
"Are Your days like those of a mortal" asks whether God investigates him the way a mortal judge must. Job closes on a claim he never withdraws, "though You know that I am not guilty," beside "there is no deliverance from Your hand".
This site's exposition
search out my sin
Job pictures God searching his days for a hidden sin. Aquinas compares the search to a court that seeks iniquity by torture, with each affliction serving as a question. Clarke hears Job asking why God should search so closely into one mortal.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"Do you judge things according to human views? May anything hide from your careful examination, as it is hidden from human beings? Are your years few, and do you ignore what was previous to your age? Do you need to make an enquiry and an …
The Medieval Church1 voice
Hast Thou eyes of flesh? or shalt Thou see as man seeth? Are Thy days as the days of man? Are Thy years as the time of man, that Thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? To know that I have done nothing ungodly.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
"Now, Lord, if thou wilt not consult my comfort, consult thy own honour; do something for thy great name, and do not disgrace the throne of thy glory, " Jer. xiv. He thinks it looked like an abuse of his omnipotence to keep a poor prisoner in custody, whom he knew to be innocent, only because there was none that could deliver him out of his hand (
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That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Dost Thou see as feebly as man? that is, with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job's friends? Yet one might think, from the rapid succession of Thy strokes, that Thou hadst no time to spare in overwhelming me.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
That thou inquirest - Is it becoming thy infinite dignity to concern thyself so much with the affairs or transgressions of a despicable mortal? A word spoken in the heart of most sinners.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
That thou inquirest after mine iniquity - Art thou governed by hu man passions and prejudices, that thou dost thus seem to search out every little obliquity and error? Job here evidently refers to the conduct of man in strictly marking faults, and in being unwilling to forgive; and he asks whether it is possible that God could be governed by such feelings as these.
The words behind it
5 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| תְבַקֵּ֥שׁ | tevakesh | you will seek | H1245 → | |
| לַעֲוֹנִ֑י | laavoni | for iniquity my | H5771 → | 233 times |
| וּ֭לְחַטָּאתִ֥י | ulechatati | and for sin my | H2403 → | 295 times |
| תִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃ | tidroosh | you will search | H1875 → | 164 times |
כִּֽי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
תְבַקֵּ֥שׁyou will seek
tevakeshH1245 →
לַעֲוֹנִ֑יfor iniquity my
laavoniH5771 →233 times
וּ֭לְחַטָּאתִ֥יand for sin my
ulechatatiH2403 →295 times
תִדְרֽוֹשׁ׃you will search
tidrooshH1875 →164 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Psalms 44:21would not God have discovered, since He knows the secrets of the heart?
it leads to
- Job 31:4
Does He not see my ways and count my every step?
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Jeremiah 17:10
I, the LORD, search the heart; I examine the mind to reward a man according to his way, by what his deeds deserve.
- Jeremiah 23:24
“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
- Ecclesiastes 12:14
For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.
- Job 31:4
Through
Zephaniah 1:12And at that time I will search Jerusalem with lamps and punish the men settled in complacency, who say to themselves, ‘The LORD will do nothing, either good or bad.’
it leads to
- Amos 6:1
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
- Jeremiah 48:11
Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his flavor has remained the same, and…
- Amos 6:1
Through
Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
it leads to
- Psalms 37:17
For the arms of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
- Job 38:15
Light is withheld from the wicked, and their upraised arm is broken.
- Psalms 37:17
About Job
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Olympiodorus of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON JOB 10:4-7 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.