Job 9:28
New Revised Standard Version
I become afraid of all my suffering, for I know you will not hold me innocent.

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

New American Bible
Then I am in dread of all my pains; I know that you will not hold me innocent.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.

afraid

Job 21:6 As for me, when I remember, I am afraid, and trembling taketh hold on my flesh.

Psalm 88:15,16 I am poor, and in labours from my youth: and being exalted have been humbled and troubled. . . .

Psalm 119:120 Pierce thou my flesh with thy fear: for I am afraid of thy judgments.

I know

Job 9:2,20,21 Indeed I know it is so, and that man cannot be justified, compared with God. . . .

Job 14:16 Thou indeed hast numbered my steps, but spare my sins.

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

Psalm 130:3 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
27If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow. 28I feared all my works, knowing that thou didst not spare the offender.29But if so also I am wicked, why have I laboured in vain?…
Cross References
Job 3:25
For the fear which I feared, hath come upon me: and that which I was afraid of, hath befallen me.

Job 7:21
Why dost thou not remove my sin, and why dost thou not take away my iniquity? Behold now I shall sleep in the dust: and if thou seek me in the morning, I shall not be.

Job 10:14
If I have sinned, and thou hast spared me for an hour: why dost thou not suffer me to be clean from my iniquity?

Job 16:6
I would strengthen you with my mouth, and would move my lips, as sparing you.

Job 9:27
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