That You should search for my guilt And carefully seek my sin?
Parallel translations
- WEB that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin?
- KJV That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest 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,
- 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 14:16But now you count my steps. Don’t you watch over my sin?
- Jer 2:34Also the blood of the souls of the innocent poor is found in your skirts. You did not find them breaking in; but it is because of all these things.
- Ps 44:21won’t God search this out? For he knows the secrets of the heart.
- Ps 10:15Break the arm of the wicked. As for the evil man, seek out his wickedness until you find none.
- Zeph 1:12It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”
- 1 Cor 4:5Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.
- Job 10:14–17if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity.
- John 2:24–25But Jesus didn’t trust himself to them, because he knew everyone,
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