Job 9:28 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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Chapter 9

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²⁸I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Job 9:28 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 119:120
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Job 9:20-21
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse. …
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Job 9:2
I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?

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Commentary

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

(vv. 25-35)

Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God’s wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not to what indecencies, nay, to what impieties, it will hurry them. The beginning of that strife with God is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with. When we are…

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

(vv. 28)

28. The apodosis to Job 9:27--“If I say, &c.” “I still am afraid of all my sorrows (returning), for I know that thou wilt (dost) (by removing my sufferings) not hold or declare me innocent. How then can I leave off my heaviness?”