If I sinned, You would take note, and would not acquit me of my iniquity.
Parallel translations
- WEB if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
- KJV If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
- NKJV If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity.
- NASB If I have sinned, You will take note of me, And will not acquit me of my guilt.
- NLT was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt.
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Quick answer
Job feels that if he sins God watches closely and will not acquit him. He dreads inescapable accountability.
Overview
Job perceives God marking his every fault and refusing to let guilt pass, which deepens his sense of being trapped. He rightly sees that God does not ignore sin, yet he does not yet grasp how God can be both just and the justifier. The gospel resolves this, for God acquits the guilty justly through the atoning work of Christ (Romans 3:26; 8:1).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Job 7:21Why do You not pardon my transgression and take away my iniquity? For soon I will lie down in the dust; You will seek me, but I will be no more.”
- Ps 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
- Num 14:18‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’
- Job 9:28I would still dread all my sufferings; I know that You will not acquit me.
- Exod 34:7maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”
- Job 13:26–27For You record bitter accusations against me and bequeath to me the iniquities of my youth.
- Ps 139:1For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Job 14:16For then You would count my steps, but would not keep track of my sin.
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