Job 13:23
How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
BSB
ASV
How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
How many are mine iniquities and sins? - Job takes the place of the plaintiff or accuser. He opens the cause. He appeals to God to state the catalogue of his crimes, or to bring forward his charges of guilt against him. The meaning, according to Schultens, is, “That catalogue ought to be great which has called down so many and so great calamities upon my head from heaven, when I am conscious to myself of being guilty of no offence.” God sorely afflicted him.
His friends were ready enough to tell him how numerous and how heinous they were, ch. xxii. "But, Lord," says he, "let me know them from thee; for thy judgment is according to truth, theirs is not." This may be taken either, 1. As a passionate complaint of hard usage, that he was punished for his faults and yet was not told what his faults were.
The catalogue of my sins ought to be great, to judge from the severity with which God ever anew crushes one already bowed down. Would that He would reckon them up! He then would see how much my calamities outnumber them. sin?--singular, "I am unconscious of a single particular sin, much less many" [UMBREIT].
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my concerns.
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Test me, O LORD, and try me; examine my heart and mind.
so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
A crucible for silver and a furnace for gold, but the LORD is the tester of hearts.
Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your…
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Job 22:5Is not your wickedness great? Are not your iniquities endless?
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For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.