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26 They pass by like1 swift ships,
aLike an eagle swooping on its prey. 
27 aIf I say, ‘I will forget my complaint,
I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,’ 
28 aI am afraid of all my sufferings;
I know that You bwill not hold me innocent. 
29 If I am condemned,
Why then do I labor in vain?
30 aIf I wash myself with snow water,
And cleanse my hands with1 soap, 
31 Yet You will plunge me into the pit,
And my own clothes will1 abhor me. 
32 “For aHe is not a man, as I am,
That I may answer Him,
And that we should go to court together. 
33 aNor is there any mediator between us,
Who may lay his hand on us both. 
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Job 9:28

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?




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Job 9:28:

Psalms 16:4

 

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