🌪️WEB · Job 9:28

What does Job 9:28 mean?

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

— Job 9:28 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good.

26

They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

27

If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’

28

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

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I shall be condemned. Why then do I labor in vain?

30

If I wash myself with snow, and cleanse my hands with lye,

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yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.

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