Job 13:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.

Job 13:23 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 44:20-21
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; …
Psalms 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
Job 36:8-9
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; …
Job 22:5
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?

Topics

Contrition Conviction Depravity of Man God Guilt Penitence Penitent Popular Sins

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 23-28)

Here, I. Job enquires after his sins, and begs to have them discovered to him. He looks up to God, and asks him what was the number of them (How many are my iniquities?) and what were the particulars of them: Make me to know my transgressions, Job 13:23. His friends were ready enough to tell him how numerous and how heinous they were, Job 22:5. “But, Lord,” says he, “let me know them from thee; fo…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 23)

23. 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].