Jób 9:28

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Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

afraid: Job 21:6, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:16, Psalms 119:120

I know: Job 9:2, Job 9:20, Job 9:21, Job 14:16, Exodus 20:7, Psalms 130:3

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:9 - hold him Job 7:13 - My bed Job 30:15 - Terrors Job 33:9 - innocent Psalms 13:2 - take Philippians 3:9 - not 1 Peter 1:6 - ye are

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am afraid of all my sorrows,.... That they would return upon him, and surround him, and overwhelm him, so that he should not be able to stand up against them, or under them; that they would increase and continue with him, and so he should never be released from them:

I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent: a sudden apostrophe to God as near him; the meaning is not, that he was confident that God would not justify him but condemn him in a spiritual sense; Job did not despair of his everlasting salvation, he knew and believed in his living Redeemer; he knew he should be acquitted and justified by his righteousness, and not be condemned with the world; but he was certain of this, as he thought that God would neither "cleanse" k him, as some render the word, from the worms his flesh was clad with, and from the filthy boils and ulcers he was covered with; nor clear him so as that he should appear to be innocent in the sight and judgment of his friends; but go on to treat him as if he was a guilty person, by continuing his afflictions on him, even unto death; he had no hope of being freed from them, and so of being cleared from the imputation of his friends, who judged of him by his outward circumstances.

k כי לא תנקני "quod non mundabis me", Montanus, Bolducius, Beza.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:28. 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.