Job 9:28 · KJV
“I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.”
— Job 9:28
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort {myself}:
{If} I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
Job 9 — Context
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle {that} hasteth to the prey. {swift...: or, ships of Ebeh: Heb. ships of desire}
27If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort {myself}:
28I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
29{If} I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?
30If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;
Cross References
Psalms 119:120
My flesh trembleth for fear of thee; and I am afraid of thy judgments.
Job 14:16
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
Psalms 130:3
If thou, LORD, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
Job 10:14
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Psalms 88:15-16
I {am} afflicted and ready to die from {my} youth up: {while} I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
Job 21:6
Even when I remember I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.
Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I {shall} not {be}.
Job 9:20-21
If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: {if I say}, I {am} perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.