“How many are my guilty deeds and sins? Make known to me my wrongdoing and my sin.
Parallel translations
- WEB How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.
- KJV How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin.
- BSB How many are my iniquities and sins? Reveal to me my transgression and sin.
- NKJV How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my transgression and my sin.
- NLT Tell me, what have I done wrong? Show me my rebellion and my sin.
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Quick answer
Job asks God to show him exactly what sins he has committed. He genuinely wants to know any charge against him.
Overview
Job pleads, 'How many are my iniquities and sins? Make me know my disobedience and my sin.' He is not denying he is a sinner but asking God to reveal the specific wrongs his suffering supposedly punishes. His openness to correction marks the contrast with his friends' confident accusations.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ps 139:23Search me, God, and know my heart. Try me, and know my thoughts.
- Job 36:8–9If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,
- Ps 44:20–21If we have forgotten the name of our God, or spread out our hands to a strange god;
- Job 22:5Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
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