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‘According to Your knowledge I am indeed not guilty, Yet there is no one to save me from Your hand.
Job 10:7 · New American Standard Bible
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.
  • 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?
  • 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

Cross-references · 21

  • Deut 32:39“See now that I myself am he. There is no god with me. I kill and I make alive. I wound and I heal. There is no one who can deliver out of my hand.
  • Ps 139:1–2For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David. Yahweh, you have searched me, and you know me.
  • Job 42:7It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
  • Dan 3:15Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good: but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
  • John 10:28–30I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand.
  • Job 31:14What then shall I do when God rises up? When he visits, what shall I answer him?
  • Job 31:35oh that I had one to hear me! Behold, here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me! Let the accuser write my indictment!
  • Ps 1:6For Yahweh knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked shall perish.
  • Ps 50:22“Now consider this, you who forget God, lest I tear you into pieces, and there be no one to deliver.
  • Hos 2:10Now I will uncover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of my hand.
  • Ps 17:3You have proved my heart. You have visited me in the night. You have tried me, and found nothing. I have resolved that my mouth shall not disobey.
  • Job 31:6(let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know my integrity);
  • Job 23:13–14But he stands alone, and who can oppose him? What his soul desires, even that he does.
  • Job 23:10But he knows the way that I take. When he has tried me, I shall come out like gold.
  • 1 Th 2:10You are witnesses with God, how holy, righteously, and blamelessly we behaved ourselves toward you who believe.
  • Ps 26:1–5By David. Judge me, Yahweh, for I have walked in my integrity. I have trusted also in Yahweh without wavering.
  • Ps 139:21–24Yahweh, don’t I hate those who hate you? Am I not grieved with those who rise up against you?
  • Ps 7:8–9Yahweh administers judgment to the peoples. Judge me, Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and to my integrity that is in me.
  • John 21:17He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of Jonah, do you have affection for me?” Peter was grieved because he asked him the third time, “Do you have affection for me?” He said to him, “Lord, you know everything. You know that I have affection for you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
  • Ps 7:3Yahweh, my God, if I have done this, if there is iniquity in my hands,
  • 2 Cor 1:12For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in holiness and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God we behaved ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

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Christ at the center

Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.

How Job 10:7 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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