Job 10:7
in Job 10though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
BSB
The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?
KJV
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
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This verse in Job 10
Commentary
11 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Thou knowest that I am not wicked - That is, that I am not a hypocrite, or an impenitent sinner. Job did not claim perfection (see the note at Job 9:20), but he maintained through all this argument that he was not a wicked man, in the sense in which his friends regarded him as such, and for the truth of this he could boldly appeal to God. The margin is, “It is upon thy knowledge.” This is a literal translation of the Hebrew, but the sense is well expressed in the text.
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
though You know that I am not guilty
Here is the knot of Job's complaint. God already knows his innocence, yet the search goes on. Barnes notes that Job claims freedom from the hypocrisy his friends charge him with, and never claims to be sinless, as Job 9:20 shows.
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 Church2 voices
So, after the investigation of this sort is completed and you find no sin in me, "Know that I have done nothing wicked," as though you could not know this otherwise than you do not search my sins using scourges. Do this freely and without …
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
): Thou knowest that I am not wicked. He had already owned himself a sinner, and guilty before God; but he here stands to it that he was not wicked, not devoted to sin, not an enemy to God, not a dissembler in his religion, that he had not wickedly departed from his God, Ps. xviii. 21 . " But there is none that can deliver out of thy hand, and therefore there is no remedy;
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Wicked - An hypocrite, as my friends account me. Deliver - But thou art the supreme ruler of the world; therefore I must wait thy time, and throw myself on thy mercy, in submission to thy sovereign will.
3 more voices on this verse
The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
Thou knowest that I am not wicked,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
"Although Thou (the Omniscient) knowest," &c. (connected with Job 10:6), "Thou searchest after my sin." and . . . that none that can deliver out of thine hand--Therefore Thou hast no need to deal with me with the rapid violence which man would use (see Job 10:6).
Thou knowest that I am not wicked - While thou hast this knowledge of me and my conduct, why appear to be sifting me as if in order to find out sin; and though none can be found, treating me as though I were a transgressor?
The words behind it
8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עַֽל־ | ʾal- | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| דַּ֭עְתְּךָ | da'tekha | knowledge your | H1847 → | 92 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| לֹ֣א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| אֶרְשָׁ֑ע | ʾersha' | I am guilty | H7561 → | 34 times |
| וְאֵ֖ין | veein | and there not | H369 → | 789 times |
| מִיָּדְךָ֣ | miyadekha | from hand your | H3027 → | 1618 times |
| מַצִּֽיל׃ | matzil | [is] a deliverer | H5337 → | 212 times |
עַֽל־on
ʾal-H5921 →5755 times
דַּ֭עְתְּךָknowledge your
da'tekhaH1847 →92 times
כִּי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
לֹ֣אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
אֶרְשָׁ֑עI am guilty
ʾersha'H7561 →34 times
וְאֵ֖יןand there not
veeinH369 →789 times
מִיָּדְךָ֣from hand your
miyadekhaH3027 →1618 times
מַצִּֽיל׃[is] a deliverer
matzilH5337 →212 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
Deuteronomy 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My…
it leads to
- 1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up.
- Hosea 6:1
Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds.
- Job 5:18
For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
- Isaiah 45:5
I am the LORD, and there is no other; there is no God but Me. I will equip you for battle, though you have not known Me,
- Isaiah 45:22
Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is no other.
- 1 Samuel 2:6
Through
Daniel 3:15Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I…
it leads to
- Acts 5:29
But Peter and the other apostles replied, “We must obey God rather than men.
- Acts 5:29
Through
Job 42:7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as…
it leads to
- Job 11:5–6
But if only God would speak and open His lips against you,
- Job 32:2–3
This kindled the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram. He burned with anger against Job for justifying himself rather than God,
- Job 11:5–6
About Job
This page draws on 11 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); Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments; 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.