Job 10:7

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ "My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me. ³ Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked? ⁴ Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? ⁵ Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years, ⁶ That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin? ⁷ Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

Bible Verse Review
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Thou knowest: Heb. It is upon thy knowledge, Job 23:10, Job 31:6, Job 31:14, Job 31:35, Job 42:7, Psalms 1:6, Psalms 7:3, Psalms 7:8, Psalms 7:9, Psalms 17:3, Psalms 26:1-5, Psalms 139:1, Psalms 139:2, Psalms 139:21-24, John 21:17, 2 Corinthians 1:12, 1 Thessalonians 2:10

and there: Job 23:13, Job 23:14, Deuteronomy 32:39, Psalms 50:22, Daniel 3:15, Hosea 2:10, John 10:28-30

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:22 - he knoweth Job 5:4 - neither Job 9:29 - General Job 10:15 - If I be wicked Job 11:4 - For thou Job 13:15 - but I will Job 32:1 - righteous Job 33:9 - clean Job 34:5 - I Job 35:2 - My Psalms 7:2 - while Jeremiah 15:15 - thou Lamentations 5:8 - there Daniel 8:4 - neither Hosea 5:14 - none

Cross-References

Genesis 2:11
The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

1 Kings 10:1
When the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of Yahweh, she came to prove him with hard questions.

Psalms 72:10
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Isaiah 21:13
The burden on Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall you lodge, you caravans of Dedanites.

Ezekiel 27:15
The men of Dedan were your traffickers; many isles were the market of your hand: they brought you in exchange horns of ivory and ebony.

Ezekiel 27:22
The traffickers of Sheba and Raamah, they were your traffickers; they traded for your wares with the chief of all spices, and with all precious stones, and gold.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Thou knowest that I am not wicked,.... Or "in", or "upon thy knowledge a [it is] that I am not wicked"; it is a thing well known, quite clear, and manifest, without making such a search and inquiry: not that he thought himself without sin, and could appeal to the omniscience of God for the truth of that; for he had confessed before that he was a sinner, and wicked, as to his nature and birth, and the many infirmities of life; see Job 7:20; but that he was not that wicked person, and an hypocrite, as his friends took him to be, and as might be concluded from the sore afflictions that were upon him; he did not live in sin, nor indulge himself in a vicious course of life; sin had not the dominion over him, and he had not secretly cherished any reigning iniquity, and lived in the commission of it: and for the truth of this he could appeal to the searcher of hearts; and yet he so closely pursued, and so strictly examined him, as if he suspected he was thus guilty:

and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand; that is, out of his afflicting hand, until he please to release him from it himself; for this is not to be understood of deliverance from the avenging hand of justice, from hell and wrath, and everlasting destruction; for there is one that can and does deliver his people from sin and Satan; from the world, the law, its curses and condemnation, and from wrath to come; and from the hands of justice, having made full satisfaction to it: but what Job observes that God knew was, that neither he himself, nor any angel, nor man, nor any creature, could take him out of his hand in which be was; and therefore suggests, not only that his condition was extremely bad, distressed, and miserable, but that there was no necessity for God to he so quick upon him, and so strict in his inquiry into him; nor of enclosing him about on all hands with afflictions, since, there was no danger of his escaping from him, or of others assisting him in and facilitating such an attempt: and this he full well knew; for so the words are connection with the preceding: "and thou knowest [that] there is none", c. b, as well as with what follows, as some think.

a על דעתך "in notitia tua est", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Beza so Michaelis. b So Bolducius, Drusius, Schmidt, Michaelis, and Bar Tzemach.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Thou knowest that I am not wicked - That is, that I am not a hypocrite, or an impenitent sinner. Job did not claim perfection (see the note at Job 9:20), but he maintained through all this argument that he was not a wicked man, in the sense in which his friends regarded him as such, and for the truth of this he could boldly appeal to God. The margin is, “It is upon thy knowledge.” This is a literal translation of the Hebrew, but the sense is well expressed in the text. The meaning of the verse is, “Why dost thou thus afflict me, when thou knowest that I am not wicked? Why am I treated as if I were the worst of men? Why is occasion thus furnished for my friends to construct an argument as if I were a man of singular depravity?”

There is none that can deliver out of thine hand - I have no power to release myself. Job felt hat God had almighty power; and he seems to have felt that his sufferings were rather the simple exertion of power, than the exercise of justice. It was this that laid the foundation for his complaint.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 10:7. Thou knowest that I am not wicked — While thou hast this knowledge of me and my conduct, why appear to be sifting me as if in order to find out sin; and though none can be found, treating me as though I were a transgressor?