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Job 9:28

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9:28I dread86 all my sufferings,87

for88 I know that you do not hold me blameless.89

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Footnotes

  1. 86 The word was used in Job 3:25; it has the idea of “dread, fear, tremble at.” The point here is that even if Job changes his appearance, he still dreads the sufferings, because he knows that God is treating him as a criminal.
  2. 87 See Job 7:15; see also the translation by G. Perles, “I tremble in every nerve” (“The Fourteenth Edition of Gesenius-Buhl’s Dictionary,” 18 [1905/06]: 383–90).
  3. 88 The conjunction “for” is supplied in the translation.
  4. 89 A. B. Davidson (Job, 73) appropriately notes that Job’s afflictions were the proof of his guilt in the estimation of God. If God held him innocent, he would remove the afflictions.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I become afraid of all my suffering,

for I know you will not hold me innocent.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I still dread all my sufferings,

for I know you will not hold me innocent.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

I would still live in terror of all my pains.

I know you will not acquit me.

NLTNew Living Translation

I would still dread all the pain,

for I know you will not find me innocent, O God.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

I become afraid of all my sufferings;

I know that you do not consider me innocent.

KJV 1900King James Version

I am afraid of all my sorrows,

I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.