Job 10:7

7 although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?

Job 10:7 Meaning and Commentary

Job 10:7

Thou knowest that I am not wicked
Or "in", or "upon thy knowledge F1 [it is] that I am not wicked"; it is a thing well known, quite clear, and manifest, without making such a search and inquiry: not that he thought himself without sin, and could appeal to the omniscience of God for the truth of that; for he had confessed before that he was a sinner, and wicked, as to his nature and birth, and the many infirmities of life; see ( Job 7:20 ) ( 9:29 ) ; but that he was not that wicked person, and an hypocrite, as his friends took him to be, and as might be concluded from the sore afflictions that were upon him; he did not live in sin, nor indulge himself in a vicious course of life; sin had not the dominion over him, and he had not secretly cherished any reigning iniquity, and lived in the commission of it: and for the truth of this he could appeal to the searcher of hearts; and yet he so closely pursued, and so strictly examined him, as if he suspected he was thus guilty:

and [there is] none that can deliver out of thine hand;
that is, out of his afflicting hand, until he please to release him from it himself; for this is not to be understood of deliverance from the avenging hand of justice, from hell and wrath, and everlasting destruction; for there is one that can and does deliver his people from sin and Satan; from the world, the law, its curses and condemnation, and from wrath to come; and from the hands of justice, having made full satisfaction to it: but what Job observes that God knew was, that neither he himself, nor any angel, nor man, nor any creature, could take him out of his hand in which be was; and therefore suggests, not only that his condition was extremely bad, distressed, and miserable, but that there was no necessity for God to he so quick upon him, and so strict in his inquiry into him; nor of enclosing him about on all hands with afflictions, since, there was no danger of his escaping from him, or of others assisting him in and facilitating such an attempt: and this he full well knew; for so the words are connection with the preceding: "and thou knowest [that] there is none" F2, as well as with what follows, as some think.


FOOTNOTES:

F1 (Kted le) "in notitia tua est", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Beza; so Michaelis.
F2 So Bolducius, Drusius, Schmidt, Michaelis, and Bar Tzemach.

Job 10:7 In-Context

5 Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,
6 that thou dost seek out my iniquity and search for my sin,
7 although thou knowest that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of thy hand?
8 Thy hands fashioned and made me; and now thou dost turn about and destroy me.
9 Remember that thou hast made me of clay; and wilt thou turn me to dust again?
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