23How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god; …
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And if they be bound in fetters, and be holden in cords of affliction; …
Is not thy wickedness great? and thine iniquities infinite?
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;…
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