though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
Parallel translations
- WEB Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
- KJV Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
- NKJV Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?
- NASB ‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no one to save me from Your hand.
- NLT Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands.
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Quick answer
Job protests that God knows he is not wicked, yet no one can rescue from God's hand. He clings to his integrity while feeling utterly helpless.
Overview
Job appeals to God's own knowledge that he is not the guilty man his friends suppose, even as he confesses no one can deliver out of God's grip. This is faith pressed to its limit: he flees to God even from God. The truth that none can deliver from God's hand becomes good news in Christ, whose hand none can pluck His own out of (John 10:28-29).
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- Deut 32:39See now that I am He; there is no God besides Me. I bring death and I give life; I wound and I heal, and there is no one who can deliver from My hand.
- Ps 139:1–2For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
- Job 42:7After the LORD had spoken these words to Job, He said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you and your two friends. For you have not spoken about Me accurately, as My servant Job has.
- Dan 3:15Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”
- John 10:28–30I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one can snatch them out of My hand.
- Job 31:14what will I do when God rises to judge? How will I answer when called to account?
- Job 31:35(Oh, that I had one to hear me! Here is my signature. Let the Almighty answer me; let my accuser compose an indictment.
- Ps 1:6For the LORD guards the path of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.
- Ps 50:22Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you to pieces, with no one to rescue you:
- Hos 2:10And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.
- Ps 17:3You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
- Job 31:6let God weigh me with honest scales, that He may know my integrity.
- Job 23:13–14But He is unchangeable, and who can oppose Him? He does what He desires.
- Job 23:10Yet He knows the way I have taken; when He has tested me, I will come forth as gold.
- 1 Th 2:10You are witnesses, and so is God, of how holy, righteous, and blameless our conduct was among you who believed.
- Ps 26:1–5Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
- Ps 139:21–24Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
- Ps 7:8–9The LORD judges the peoples; vindicate me, O LORD, according to my righteousness and integrity.
- John 21:17Jesus asked a third time, “Simon son of John, do you love Me?” Peter was deeply hurt that Jesus had asked him a third time, “Do you love Me?” “Lord, You know all things,” he replied. “You know I love You.” Jesus said to him, “Feed My sheep.
- Ps 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this, if injustice is on my hands,
- 2 Cor 1:12And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
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