Job 10:14
12 You have granted me life and loving devotion, and Your care has preserved my spirit.
13 Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
15 If I am guilty, woe to me! And even if I am righteous, I cannot lift my head. I am full of shame and aware of my affliction.
16 Should I hold my head high, You would hunt me like a lion, and again display Your power against me.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
- KJV
- If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
- WEB
- if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
- ASV
- If I sin, then thou markest me, And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
- DARBY
- If I sinned, thou wouldest mark me, and thou wouldest not acquit me of mine iniquity.
- BLB
- If I sin then You keep watch on me, and You will not clear me from my iniquity.
- ÅB
- Syndet jeg, så ville du vokte på meg og ikke frikjenne meg for min misgjerning;
- OTB
- Hvis jeg synder, så ville Du merke meg,
Og ikke frikjenne meg for min skyld. - B1930
- Syndet jeg, så vilde du vokte på mig og ikke frikjenne mig for min misgjerning;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 7:21
Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
Read in contextPsalms 130:3
If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Read in contextExodus 34:7
maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
Read in contextJob 13:26–27
For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
Read in contextNumbers 14:18
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
Read in contextPsalms 139:1
O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
Read in contextJob 9:28
I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
Read in contextJob 14:16
For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
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