Job 10:6
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job 10:6 in other translations
| BSB | that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin— |
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| WEB | that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? |
| ASV | That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin, |
| YLT | That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest? |
| DARBY | That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin; |
| BBE | That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing, |
| Webster | That thou inquirest after my iniquity, and searchest after my sin? |
What does Job 10:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 10:4-6
4-6. Dost Thou see as feebly as man? that is, with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job's friends? Is Thy time as short? Impossible! Yet one might think, from the rapid succession of Thy strokes, that Thou hadst no time to spare in overwhelming me.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 10:1-7
Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. When God afflicts us, he contends with us; when he contends with us, there is always a reason; and it is desirable to know the reason, that we may repent of and forsake the sin for which God has a controversy with us. But…
Job 10:6 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 10:6
- Job 14:16
For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
- Psalms 10:15
Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
- Psalms 44:21
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
- Zephaniah 1:12
And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.
- Jeremiah 2:34
Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
- Job 10:14-17
If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. If I be wicked, woe unto me; and if I be righteous, yet will I not lift up my head. I am full of confusion; therefore see thou mine affliction; For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me. Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
- John 2:24-25
But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men, And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.
- 1 Corinthians 4:5
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God.
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Context
- Job 10:5
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
- Job 10:6
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
- Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Job 10:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Para que inquieras mi iniquidad, y busques mi pecado, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Que tu recherches mon iniquité et que tu scrutes mon péché; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | daß du nach meiner Ungerechtigkeit suchst und nach meiner Sünde forschest, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | ut quæras iniquitatem meam, et peccatum meum scruteris, |