That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Parallel translations
- WEB that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
- BSB that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—
- NKJV That You should seek for my iniquity And search out my sin,
- NASB That You should search for my guilt And carefully seek my sin?
- NLT that you must quickly probe for my guilt and search for my sin?
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Quick answer
Job feels God is searching out his iniquity and probing for his sin. He senses relentless divine scrutiny of his life.
Overview
Job pictures God diligently inquiring after any fault in him, intensifying his sense of being hunted. While Job misreads the motive behind his suffering, his words testify that nothing is hidden from God. For the believer this searching becomes mercy, for the God who knows our sin has provided its cleansing in Christ (Psalm 139:23-24; 1 John 1:9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Job 14:16For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
- Jer 2:34Also 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.
- Ps 44:21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
- Ps 10:15Break thou the arm of the wicked and the evil man: seek out his wickedness till thou find none.
- Zeph 1:12And 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.
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore 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.
- Job 10:14–17If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
- John 2:24–25But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
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