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Job 33:9
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“I am pure, without transgression;I am clean and have no iniquity.
'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
I am clean without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquity in me.
You say, ‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, and there is no iniquity in me.
You said, ‘I am pure and without sin; I am innocent and free from guilt.
‘I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and have no iniquity.
'I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.
'I am pure, without wrongdoing; I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.
'I am clean, without disobedience. I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
I am cleane, without sinne: I am innocent, and there is none iniquitie in me.
‘I am pure, without transgression;I am innocent, and there is no guilt in me.
'I am pure, without transgression; I am clean, with no iniquity in me.
that you are innocent, guilty of nothing.
‘I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, not guilty.
I am clean without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me;
‘I am pure and innocent; I did nothing wrong; I am not guilty!
I am blameless without transgressions, I am righteous; and there is no iniquity in me, and I am far removed from wickedness.
"I am not guilty; I have done nothing wrong. I am innocent and free from sin.
‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no guilt in me.
You said , I am pure, without transgression; I am clean and no iniquity is in me;
I am clene without eny fawte, I am innocent, & there is no wickednesse in me.
I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
I am clean, without sin; I am washed, and there is no evil in me:
'I am clean, without transgression, I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me;
I am cleane without transgression, I am innocent; neither is there iniquitie in me.
I am blameless, for I have not transgressed.
I am clean, without transgression; I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me:
Y am cleene, and with out gilt, and vnwemmed, and wickidnesse is not in me.
I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, neither is there iniquity in me:
I am clean without transgression, I [am] innocent; neither [is there] iniquity in me.
"I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent, and there is no iniquity in me.
You said, ‘I am pure; I am without sin; I am innocent; I have no guilt.
You said, ‘I am pure and without sin. I am not guilty, and there is no sin in me.
You say, ‘I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
Pure am, I, without transgression, - Clean am, I, and have no iniquity;
I am clean, and without sin: I am unspotted, and there is no iniquity in me.
You say, 'I am clean, without transgression; I am pure, and there is no iniquity in me.
`Pure [am] I, without transgression, Innocent [am] I, and I have no iniquity.
'I am pure, without transgression; I am innocent and there is no guilt in me.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
clean: Job 9:17, Job 10:7, Job 11:4, Job 16:17, Job 23:11, Job 23:12, Job 27:5, Job 27:6, Job 29:14
innocent: Job 9:23, Job 9:28, Job 17:8, Jeremiah 2:35
Reciprocal: Genesis 20:5 - and innocency 1 Samuel 15:20 - Yea Job 7:20 - I have sinned Job 32:1 - righteous Job 34:5 - I Proverbs 30:12 - that are
Cross-References
And the Lorde said vnto Cain: where is Habel thy brother? Which sayde I wote not: Am I my brothers keper?
Then Isahac his father aunswered, and sayde vnto hym: beholde, thy dwellyng place shalbe the fatnesse of the earth, and of the deawe of heauen from aboue.
And Esau hated Iacob, because of the blessyng that his father blessed hym withall. And Esau sayde in his heart: The dayes of sorowyng for my father are at hande, then wyll I slaye my brother Iacob.
(And the children of Israel went vp, and wept before the Lorde vnto euen, and asked of the Lord, saying: Shal we go agayne to battell against the children of Beniamin our brethre? And the Lord sayde: Go vp against them.)
When a mans wayes please the Lord, he maketh his very enemies to be his frendes.
The horse leache hath two daughters crying: bryng hyther, bryng hyther. There be three thynges that are neuer satisfied, yea foure thynges sayth neuer hoe:
There is one man, no mo but himselfe alone, hauing neither childe nor brother, yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches: [yet saith he not] for whom do I take such trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life? This is also a vayne and miserable thyng.
And Ananias went his way, and entred into the house, and put his handes on hym, and sayde: Brother Saul, the Lorde (euen Iesus that appeared vnto thee in the waye as thou camest) hath sent me, that thou myghtest receaue thy syght, & be fylled with the holy ghost.
And when they hearde it, they glorified the Lorde, & sayde vnto hym: Thou seest brother, howe many thousande Iewes there are which beleue, & they are all earnest folowers of the lawe.
For we haue great ioy & consolation in thy loue, because the bowels of the saintes are refresshed by thee, brother.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
I am clean without transgression,.... This with what follows is supposed to be gathered from Job 10:6; for this is nowhere said by Job in express words; though I rather think, since Elihu so peremptorily affirms that they were spoken in his hearing, that these words and the following did drop from Job's lips, in the controversy with his friends, though not recorded; for we are not to suppose that everything that was said on both sides is preserved, only so much as the Holy Ghost thought fit should be: no man is naturally clean, or free from sin; man came clean out of the hands of God, by sin is become unclean. This impurity is propagated by natural generation, and is in all without exception. Job expresses himself clearly on this point, and agreeably to it, Job 14:4; nor is any man clean by and of himself, or through anything he is capable of doing, in a moral, ceremonial, or evangelic sense, to make himself clean; as by moral actions, by ceremonial ablutions and sacrifices, or by submission to evangelic ordinances, or even by his own tears, repentance, and humiliation. Job seemed clearly and fully sensible of this, Job 9:30; see Proverbs 20:9; yet there are some persons that are clean through the blood of Christ, in which they are washed, and which cleanses from all sin; and through the righteousness of Christ imputed to them, in which they appear without spot or wrinkle, or any such thing; and through the sentence of justification pronounced on them, by which word spoken they are all clean; and through the grace of God bestowed on them, the clean water that is sprinkled upon them, by which they are cleansed from all filthiness, and hence said to have clean hearts and clean hands; and if Job meant it in this sense, as he had knowledge of his living Redeemer, he no doubt was such an one,
Job 19:25: but not "without transgression": without transgression imputed he was, and such are all they whose persons are justified, and their sins pardoned; to those God does not impute sin, Psalms 32:1; but they are not without the being nor commission of sin; for no man, even the best of men, are clear of it in this sense. Job might be free from the grosser sins of life, but not from indwelling sin, and the actings of it; we find him confessing sin, and disclaiming perfection, Job 7:20;
I [am] innocent; so he was, as to the charges brought against him by his friends, or the things it was insinuated he was guilty of, as hypocrisy, c. or as to doing any injury to the persons and properties of men, or with respect to gross enormities, from which he had sufficiently cleared himself in Job 31:1 but not so innocent as to be free from all sin, as Adam was in his state of innocence, which is contrary to his own declarations in the passages before referred to; some, as Aben Ezra observes, interpret the word "covered" f, and as having the same sense with Psalms 32:1; and in which sense it was true of Job, that his iniquities were covered; and others of his being covered with righteousness, with civil righteousness, as in Job 29:14; which was true of the exercise of it; and in an evangelic sense he was covered with the justifying righteousness of Christ; the Targum renders the word "washed", as he was in a spiritual sense. Jarchi interprets it "wiped" or "rubbed", and others combed and brushed, and so "neat" and "clean", which is the sense of several versions g:
neither [is there] iniquity in me; in a Gospel sense there is none in believers in Christ; their iniquities being removed from them to him, and are done away and made an end of by him; nor are they to be seen with the eye of vindictive justice; God has cast them behind his back, and into the depths of the sea, never to be seen more; but then there is iniquity in them, as considered in themselves; for men to say they have none shows pride and ignorance, and is inconsistent with the truth of grace. If Job is to understood in these expressions in an evangelical sense, or with respect to the grossest sins of life, or a vicious course of life (and indeed in no other sense can he well be understood, consistent with himself), he is not to be blamed for what he said, and I apprehend that Elihu does not blame him for saying these things in his own defence; but for insisting so much and so long upon his innocence and purity, and unspotted life; and especially for joining with it undue and unbecoming reflections on the Lord, for afflicting a person so holy and righteous, as follows.
f ××£ "tectus", Montanus, Bolducius. g "Mundus", Beza; "nitidus", Junius Tremellius, Piscator "tersus", Codurcus, Cocceius.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
I am clean - I am pure and holy.
Without transgression - Job had not used these very expressions, nor had he intended to maintain that he was absolutely free from sin; see Job 9:20. He had maintained that he was not chargeable with the transgressions of which his three friends maintained that he was guilty, and in doing that he had used strong language, and language which even seemed to imply that he was without transgression; see Job 9:30; Job 10:7; Job 13:23; Job 16:17.
I am innocent - The word used here (××£ chaph) is from the verb ×פף chophaph - to cover, to protect; and also, as a secondary meaning, from the Arabic, to rub, to wipe off; to wash away; to lave. Hence, it denotes that which is rubbed clean, washed, pure - and then innocent. The word occurs only in this place. It is not the exact language which Job had used, and there seems to be some injustice done him in saying that he had employed such language. Elihu means, doubtless, that he had used language which implied this, or which was equivalent to it.
