Job 9:28
in Job 9I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
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ASV
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
KJV
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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This verse in Job 9
Commentary
9 notes on this verseI was afraid of all my works, knowing that Thou wouldest not spare me, when guilty of transgression. What were the works that blessed Job practised, the text of this sacred history makes plain. For he studied to propitiate his Maker by numberless burnt offerings; in that according to the number of his sons, as it is written, rising up early in the morning, he offered burnt offerings for each, and purified them not only from impure actions, but likewise from bad thoughts.
This site's exposition
My days are swifter than a runner
on Job 9:25-31
"My days are swifter than a runner" returns to the speed of life. Resolving to "forget my complaint" brings no comfort, since "I would still dread all my sufferings". Even "If I should wash myself with snow and cleanse my hands with lye," God would plunge him "into the pit".
This site's exposition
I would still dread all my sufferings
Barnes explains that God would acquit Job by ending his sufferings, so every day of pain looks like a verdict of guilty. Clarke gives acquit the same sense. Job dreads all his sufferings for what they seem to say.
The record, by era
The Medieval Church2 voices
He then expresses the cause of his pain saying, "I was anxious about everything I did." For the cause of pain is great for someone when he has great anxiety about some one thing and yet he falls in the very thing he tries to …
A commentator
BonaventureCollations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 19 · Written in the 13th century.
proposed
Anyone who wishes to obtain advantages from his studies should be holy and should work for a life that is reverent, pure, religious, and edifying. Now the reverent life of the saints consists in this, that in anything they do, they be always in a …
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
It is easy to preach patience to those that are in trouble, and to tell them they must forget their complaints and comfort themselves; but it is not so soon done as said.
I am afraid of all my sorrows,....
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
I am afraid of all my sorrows - Coverdale translates, after the Vulgate, Then am I afrayed of all my workes. Even were I to cease from complaining, I fear lest not one of my works, however well intentioned, would stand thy scrutiny, or meet with thy approbation. Thou wilt not hold me innocent - Coverdale, after the Vulgate, For I knowe thou favourest not an evil doer; but this is not the sense of the original: Thou wilt not acquit me so as to take away my afflictions from me.
1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
I am afraid of all my sorrows - My fears return. I dread the continuance of my griefs, and cannot close my eye to them. Thou wilt not hold me innocent - God will not remove my sorrows so as to furnish the evidence that I am innocent. My sufferings continue, and with them continue all the evidence on which my friends rely that I am a guilty man. In such a state of things, how can I be otherwise than sad? He was held to be guilty; he was suffering in such a way as to afford them the proof that he was so, and how could he be cheerful?
The words behind it
7 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| יָגֹ֥רְתִּי | yagoreti | I dread | H3025 → | |
| כָל־ | khol- | all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| עַצְּבֹתָ֑י | ʾatzevotai | pains my | H6094 → | |
| יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי | yada'ti | I know | H3045 → | 945 times |
| כִּי־ | ki- | that | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| לֹ֥א | lo' | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תְנַקֵּֽנִי׃ | tenakeni | you will acquit me | H5352 → |
יָגֹ֥רְתִּיI dread
yagoretiH3025 →
כָל־all
khol-H3605 →5413 times
עַצְּבֹתָ֑יpains my
ʾatzevotaiH6094 →
יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּיI know
yada'tiH3045 →945 times
כִּי־that
ki-H3588 →4482 times
לֹ֥אnot
lo'H3808 →5168 times
תְנַקֵּֽנִי׃you will acquit me
tenakeniH5352 →
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 119:120My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
it leads to
- Habakkuk 3:16
I heard and trembled within; my lips quivered at the sound. Decay entered my bones; I trembled where I stood. Yet I must wait patiently for the day of distress to come upon the…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Daniel 10:8–11
So I was left alone, gazing at this great vision. No strength remained in me; my face grew deathly pale, and I was powerless.
- Hebrews 12:28–29
Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe.
- Hebrews 12:21
The sight was so terrifying that even Moses said, “I am trembling with fear.”
- Philippians 2:12
Therefore, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not only in my presence, but now even more in my absence, continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling.
- Habakkuk 3:16
Through
Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
it leads to
- Job 1:5
And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps…
- Job 30:15
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
- Job 31:23
For calamity from God terrifies me, and His splendor I cannot overpower.
- Job 1:5
Where this verse is studied
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About Job
This page draws on 9 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; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bonaventure, Collations on the Hexaemeron, Collation 19; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.