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Job: How Can I Contend with God?

Job 9:28

In 11 translations

BSB
I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
KJV
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
WEB
I am afraid of all my sorrows. I know that you will not hold me innocent.
ASV
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
LSV
I have been afraid of all my griefs, || I have known that You do not acquit me.
YLT
I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.
DBY
I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
DRC
I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.
GNV
Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.
JPS
I am afraid of all my pains, I know that Thou wilt not hold me guiltless.
LXXE
I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

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Original-language editions

WLC
יָגֹ֥רְתִּי כָל־עַצְּבֹתָ֑י יָ֝דַ֗עְתִּי כִּי־לֹ֥א תְנַקֵּֽנִי׃
LXX-Br
Σείομαι πᾶσι τοῖς μέλεσιν, οἴδα γὰρ ὅτι οὐκ ἀθῶόν με ἐάσεις.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 119:120My flesh trembles in awe of You; I stand in fear of Your judgments.
  • Job 21:6When I remember, terror takes hold, and my body trembles in horror.
  • Job 7:21Why 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.”
  • Job 9:2“Yes, I know that it is so, but how can a mortal be righteous before God?
  • Job 3:25For the thing I feared has overtaken me, and what I dreaded has befallen me.
  • Job 9:20–21Even if I were righteous, my mouth would condemn me; if I were blameless, it would declare me guilty. Though I am blameless, I have no concern for myself; I despise my own life.
  • Job 10:14If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
  • Psalms 88:15–16From my youth I was afflicted and near death. I have borne Your terrors; I am in despair. Your wrath has swept over me; Your terrors have destroyed me.
  • Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
  • Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
  • Exodus 20:7You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain.

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