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It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
Job 6:10 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB Be it still my consolation, yes, let me exult in pain that doesn’t spare, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
  • KJV Then should I yet have comfort; yea, I would harden myself in sorrow: let him not spare; for I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
  • NKJV Then I would still have comfort; Though in anguish I would exult, He will not spare; For I have not concealed the words of the Holy One.
  • NASB “But it is still my comfort, And I rejoice in unsparing pain, That I have not denied the words of the Holy One.
  • NLT At least I can take comfort in this: Despite the pain, I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

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Quick answer

Even so, Job finds consolation that he has not denied the words of the Holy One. Amid agony he clings to his integrity and faithfulness to God.

Overview

Remarkably, Job's comfort is that, despite craving death, he has not renounced God's words. His integrity remains intact even in extremity. This quiet faithfulness under crushing pain foreshadows the steadfastness of Christ, who held fast to the Father's will through his own anguish, and it encourages believers that fidelity, not the absence of suffering, is the true mark of grace.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Job 23:12I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
  • Lev 19:2“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
  • Isa 57:15For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
  • Ps 71:17–18O God, You have taught me from my youth, and to this day I proclaim Your marvelous deeds.
  • Ps 40:9–10I proclaim righteousness in the great assembly; behold, I do not seal my lips, as You, O LORD, do know.
  • Ps 119:13With my lips I proclaim all the judgments of Your mouth.
  • 1 Sam 2:2There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.
  • Deut 29:20The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
  • Acts 20:27For I did not shrink back from declaring to you the whole will of God.
  • Isa 30:11–12Get out of the way; turn off the road. Rid us of the Holy One of Israel!”
  • Job 21:33The clods of the valley are sweet to him; everyone follows behind him, and those before him are without number.
  • Acts 20:20I did not shrink back from declaring anything that was helpful to you as I taught you publicly and from house to house,
  • Hab 1:12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
  • Rev 3:7To the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These are the words of the One who is holy and true, who holds the key of David. What He opens no one can shut, and what He shuts no one can open.
  • Hos 11:9I will not execute the full fury of My anger; I will not turn back to destroy Ephraim. For I am God and not man—the Holy One among you—and I will not come in wrath.
  • 2 Pet 2:4–5For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;
  • Rev 4:8And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”
  • Job 9:4God is wise in heart and mighty in strength. Who has resisted Him and prospered?
  • Job 3:22who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
  • Job 22:22Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
  • Ps 37:30The mouth of the righteous man utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
  • Rom 8:32He who did not spare His own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also, along with Him, freely give us all things?
  • Hab 3:3God came from Teman, and the Holy One from Mount Paran. Selah His glory covered the heavens, and His praise filled the earth.

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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 6:10 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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