Job 9:28

Easy-to-Read Version

But the suffering still frightens me. I know that God will not see me as innocent.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I would still live in terror of all my pains.I know you will not acquit me.

Hebrew Names Version
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

King James Version
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

English Standard Version
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

New Century Version
I still dread all my suffering. I know you will hold me guilty.

New English Translation
I dread all my sufferings, for I know that you do not hold me blameless.

Amplified Bible
I am afraid of all my pains and worries [yet to come]; I know that You will not acquit me and leave me unpunished.

New American Standard Bible
I am afraid of all my pains, I know that You will not acquit me.

World English Bible
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then I am afrayd of all my sorowes, knowing that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

Legacy Standard Bible
I am afraid of all my pains;I know that You will not acquit me.

Berean Standard Bible
I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.

Contemporary English Version
but my sufferings frighten me, because I know that God still considers me guilty.

Complete Jewish Bible
then I'm still afraid of all my pain, and I know you will not hold me innocent.

Darby Translation
I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

George Lamsa Translation
Though I am at rest, I am afraid of every torment, because I know that thou wilt not declare me innocent.

Lexham English Bible
I become afraid of all my sufferings; I know that you do not consider me innocent.

Literal Translation
I am afraid of all my sorrows; I know that You will not hold me innocent;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
then am I afrayed of all my workes, for I knowe, thou fauourest not an euell doer.

American Standard Version
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Bible in Basic English
I go in fear of all my pains; I am certain that I will not be free from sin in your eyes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
I am afraid of all my pains, I know that Thou wilt not hold me guiltless.

King James Version (1611)
I am afraid of all my sorrowes, I know that thou wilt not holde me innocent.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then am I afrayde of all my sorowes, for I knowe that thou wilt not iudge me innocent.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I quake in all my limbs, for I know that thou wilt not leave me alone as innocent.

English Revised Version
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Y drede alle my werkis, witynge that thou `woldist not spare the trespassour.

Update Bible Version
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that you will not hold me innocent.

Webster's Bible Translation
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

New King James Version
I am afraid of all my sufferings; I know that You will not hold me innocent.

New Living Translation
I would still dread all the pain, for I know you will not find me innocent, O God.

New Life Bible
I am still afraid of all my pains for I know You will not take away my guilt.

New Revised Standard
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
I am afraid of all my pains, I know, that thou wilt not pronounce me innocent.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

Revised Standard Version
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Young's Literal Translation
I have been afraid of all my griefs, I have known that Thou dost not acquit me.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
I am afraid of all my pains, I know that You will not acquit me.

Contextual Overview

²⁵ "My days are passing faster than a runner. They are flying by without any joy. ²⁶ They go by as quickly as papyrus boats, as fast as an eagle swooping down on its prey. ²⁷ "I could say, ‘I will not complain. I will forget my pain and put a smile on my face.' ²⁸ But the suffering still frightens me. I know that God will not see me as innocent. ²⁹ I will be found guilty, so why should I even think about it? ³⁰ Even if I scrubbed my hands with soap and washed myself whiter than snow, ³¹ God would still push me into the slime pit, and even my clothes would hate to touch me. ³² God is not a human like me, so I cannot argue with him. I cannot take him to court. ³³ I wish there were someone who could listen to both sides, someone to judge both of us in a fair way. ³⁴ I wish someone could take away the threat of God's punishment. Then he would not frighten me anymore.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

afraid: Job 21:6, Psalms 88:15, Psalms 88:16, Psalms 119:120

I know: Job 9:2, Job 9:20, Job 9:21, Job 14:16, Exodus 20:7, Psalms 130:3

Reciprocal: 1 Kings 2:9 - hold him Job 7:13 - My bed Job 30:15 - Terrors Job 33:9 - innocent Psalms 13:2 - take Philippians 3:9 - not 1 Peter 1:6 - ye are

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I am afraid of all my sorrows,.... That they would return upon him, and surround him, and overwhelm him, so that he should not be able to stand up against them, or under them; that they would increase and continue with him, and so he should never be released from them:

I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent: a sudden apostrophe to God as near him; the meaning is not, that he was confident that God would not justify him but condemn him in a spiritual sense; Job did not despair of his everlasting salvation, he knew and believed in his living Redeemer; he knew he should be acquitted and justified by his righteousness, and not be condemned with the world; but he was certain of this, as he thought that God would neither "cleanse" k him, as some render the word, from the worms his flesh was clad with, and from the filthy boils and ulcers he was covered with; nor clear him so as that he should appear to be innocent in the sight and judgment of his friends; but go on to treat him as if he was a guilty person, by continuing his afflictions on him, even unto death; he had no hope of being freed from them, and so of being cleared from the imputation of his friends, who judged of him by his outward circumstances.

k כי לא תנקני "quod non mundabis me", Montanus, Bolducius, Beza.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 9:28. I am afraid of all my sorrows — Coverdale translates, after the Vulgate, Then am I afrayed of all my workes. Even were I to cease from complaining, I fear lest not one of my works, however well intentioned, would stand thy scrutiny, or meet with thy approbation.

Thou wilt not hold me innocent. — Coverdale, after the Vulgate, For I knowe thou favourest not an evil doer; but this is not the sense of the original: Thou wilt not acquit me so as to take away my afflictions from me.