Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
Parallel translations
- WEB Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.
- BSB though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your 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).
Cross-references & the web
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- Deut 32:39See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.
- Ps 139:1–2O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
- Job 42:7And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.
- Dan 3:15Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- John 10:28–30And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- Job 31:14What then shall I do when God riseth up? and when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?
- Job 31:35Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a book.
- Ps 1:6For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish.
- Ps 50:22Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, and there be none to deliver.
- Hos 2:10And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
- Ps 17:3Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
- Job 31:6Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine integrity.
- Job 23:13–14But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.
- Job 23:10But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
- 1 Th 2:10Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
- Ps 26:1–5Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall not slide.
- Ps 139:21–24Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
- Ps 7:8–9The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
- John 21:17He saith unto him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time, Lovest thou me? And he said unto him, Lord, thou knowest all things; thou knowest that I love thee. Jesus saith unto him, Feed my sheep.
- Ps 7:3O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
- 2 Cor 1:12For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly to you-ward.
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