Job 9:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:120 : 120 My body trembles because I fear you; I am afraid of your judgments.
  • Ps 130:3 : 3 If you, O LORD, were to keep track of sins, O Lord, who could stand before you?
  • Exod 20:7 : 7 “You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.
  • Job 3:25 : 25 For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.
  • Job 7:21 : 21 And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”
  • Job 9:2 : 2 “Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?
  • Job 9:20-21 : 20 Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse. 21 I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.
  • Job 10:14 : 14 If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.
  • Job 14:16 : 16 The Present Condition“Surely now you count my steps; then you would not mark my sin.
  • Job 21:6 : 6 For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.
  • Ps 88:15-16 : 15 I am oppressed and have been on the verge of death since my youth. I have been subjected to your horrors and am numb with pain. 16 Your anger overwhelms me; your terrors destroy me.

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    14If I sinned, then you would watch me and you would not acquit me of my iniquity.

    15If I am guilty, woe to me, and if I am innocent, I cannot lift my head; I am full of shame, and satiated with my affliction.

  • Job 9:29-31
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    29If I am guilty, why then weary myself in vain?

    30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands clean with lye,

    31then you plunge me into a slimy pit and my own clothes abhor me.

  • Job 10:6-7
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    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

    7although you know that I am not guilty, and that there is no one who can deliver out of your hand?

  • Job 9:27
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    27If I say,‘I will forget my complaint, I will change my expression and be cheerful,’

  • Job 9:34-35
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    34who would take his rod away from me so that his terror would not make me afraid.

    35Then would I speak and not fear him, but it is not so with me.

  • Job 7:20-21
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    20If I have sinned– what have I done to you, O watcher of men? Why have you set me as your target? Have I become a burden to you?

    21And why do you not pardon my transgression, and take away my iniquity? For now I will lie down in the dust, and you will seek me diligently, but I will be gone.”

  • Job 23:15
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    15That is why I am terrified in his presence; when I consider, I am afraid because of him.

  • Ps 38:17-18
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    17For I am about to stumble, and I am in constant pain.

    18Yes, I confess my wrongdoing, and I am concerned about my sins.

  • Jer 2:35
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    35you say,‘I have not done anything wrong, so the LORD cannot really be angry with me any more.’ But, watch out! I will bring down judgment on you because you say,‘I have not committed any sin.’

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    9‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.

  • Job 21:6
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    6For, when I think about this, I am terrified and my body feels a shudder.

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    25For the very thing I dreaded has happened to me, and what I feared has come upon me.

  • Job 31:33-34
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    33if I have covered my transgressions as men do, by hiding iniquity in my heart,

    34because I was terrified of the great multitude, and the contempt of families terrified me, so that I remained silent and would not go outdoors–

  • Job 34:32
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    32Teach me what I cannot see. If I have done evil, I will do so no more.’

  • Job 31:23
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    23For the calamity from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his majesty I was powerless.

  • Job 13:21
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    21Remove your hand far from me and stop making me afraid with your terror.

  • Job 13:19
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    19Who will contend with me? If anyone can, I will be silent and die.

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    6I will maintain my righteousness and never let it go; my conscience will not reproach me for as long as I live.

  • Job 6:10
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    10Then I would yet have my comfort, then I would rejoice, in spite of pitiless pain, for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.

  • Job 13:23-24
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    23How many are my iniquities and sins? Show me my transgression and my sin.

    24Why do you hide your face and regard me as your enemy?

  • Job 9:20-21
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    20Although I am innocent, my mouth would condemn me; although I am blameless, it would declare me perverse.

    21I am blameless. I do not know myself. I despise my life.

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    2I will say to God,‘Do not condemn me; tell me why you are contending with me.’

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    11Job Remonstrates with God“Therefore, I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

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    4My heart beats violently within me; the horrors of death overcome me.

    5Fear and panic overpower me; terror overwhelms me.

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    15Even if he slays me, I will hope in him; I will surely defend my ways to his face!

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    26For you write down bitter things against me and cause me to inherit the sins of my youth.

  • Job 30:23
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    23I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

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    2“Truly, I know that this is so. But how can a human be just before God?

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    9I must endure the LORD’s fury, for I have sinned against him. But then he will defend my cause, and accomplish justice on my behalf. He will lead me out into the light; I will witness his deliverance.

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    8Deliver me from all my sins of rebellion! Do not make me the object of fools’ insults!

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    12For innumerable dangers surround me. My sins overtake me so I am unable to see; they outnumber the hairs of my head so my strength fails me.

  • Job 23:7
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    7There an upright person could present his case before him, and I would be delivered forever from my judge.

  • Job 14:13
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  • Job 9:18
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    18He does not allow me to recover my breath, for he fills me with bitterness.

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

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    28then this also would be iniquity to be judged, for I would have been false to God above.

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    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?