Job 13:23 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. ”

Job 13:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How many are mine iniquities and sins? - Job takes the place of the plaintiff or accuser. He opens the cause. He appeals to God to state the catalogue of his crimes, or to bring forward his charg...
Job 13:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

How many [are] (l) mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. (l) His pangs move him to reason with God, not denying that he had sinned: but he desired to understand what...
Job 13:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

How many... ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
Job 13:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. How many are mine iniquities - Job being permitted to begin first, enters immediately upon the subject; and as it...
Job 13:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. The catalogue of my sins ought to be great, to judge from the severity with which God ever anew crushes one...
Job 13:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job's Third Speech (continued) 1-12. Job claims to understand as much about God as the friends. He rejects their opinion as to the cause of his troubles, and regards it as an attempt to curry favo...
Job 13:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

How many are mine iniquities? — We must be careful to note that alongside with Job’s claim to be righteous there is ever as deep a confession of personal sin, thus showing that the only way in whic...
Job 13:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

XII. BEYOND FACT AND FEAR TO GOD Job 12:1-25 ; Job 13:1-28 ; Job 14:1-22 Job SPEAKS ZOPHAR excites in Job's mind great irritation, which must not be set down altogether to the fact that he...
Job 13:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“Though He Slay Me” Job 13:1-28 The sufferer first rebukes his friends, Job 13:4-12 . Then he makes an appeal to God, affirming that he was no hypocrite, and asking that his sins, for which he...
Job 13:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Continuing his answer, Job restated his conviction that his knowledge was not inferior to theirs, and declared that his appeal was to God (1-3). Before making this appeal there is an introductory pas...
Job 13:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

How many [are] mine iniquities and sins ?] Whether of ignorance or presumption, through mistake or wilfulness, voluntary or involuntary, sins of omission or commission, secret or open, or of heart,...
Job 13:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

How many [are] mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. Ver. 23. How many are mine iniquities and sins? ] How many? too many to be reckoned: sin imputed to thee, sins...
Job 13:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

How many are my sins? That I am a sinner, I confess; but not that I am guilty of such crimes as my friends suppose; if it be so, do thou, O Lord, discover it. Wherefore hidest thou thy face? With...
Job 13:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

JOB DECLARES HIMSELF FULLY EQUAL TO HIS FRIENDS (vv.1-12) Job has spoken at length of God's wisdom and power, now he tells Zophar that his eye has seen all this, his ear has heard it and underst...
Job 13:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

23 How many are mine iniquities and sins? make me to know my transgression and my sin. 24 Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy? 25 Wilt thou break a leaf drive...
Job 13:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

That I am a sinner I confess; but that I am guilty of so many or such heinous crimes as my friends suppose I utterly deny; and if it be so, do thou, O Lord, discover it to my shame. Make me to know...
Job 13:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

JOB’S REPLY TO ZOPHAR—CONTINUED I. Job re-asserts his knowledge of the Divine procedure as not inferior to that of his friends ( Job 13:1-2 ). “Lo, mine eye,” &c. Right in certain circumsta...
Job 13:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Job 13:23 There is a sense in which every one knows that he is a sinner. Every one admits it, just as he admits any abstract Scriptural truth. But a man of the world looks upon sin rather in its r...
Job 13:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 13:4 . Forgers of lies, misconstruing the ways of providence. Job 13:10 , He will surely reprove you, though under a specious veil you accept of persons. Job 13:12 . Your remembrance...
Job 13:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

How many are mine iniquities and sins? Struggles of conscience In Luther’s day the precise evil under which men laboured was this: they believed in being self-righteous, and so they supposed th...
Job 13:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Job 13:1 , Job 13:2 The first two verses of Job 13:1-18 . are closely connected with Job 12:1-18 ; forming the natural termination to the first section of Job's argument,...
Job 13:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job's Comfort and Prayer
Job 13:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 22:5 ; Job 36:8 ; Job 36:9 ; Psalms 139:23 ; Psalms 44:20 ; Psalms 44:21
Job 13:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

My sin — That I am a sinner, I confess; but not that I am guilty of such crimes as my friends suppose, if it be so, do thou, O Lord, discover it.

Job 13:23 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Job 13:23 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Job 13:23 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Job 13:23 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Job 13:23 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Job 13:23 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Job 13:23 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Job 13:23 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Job 13:23 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Job 13:23 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Job 13:23 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Job 13:23 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Job 13:23 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 13:23 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Job 13:23 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Job 13:23 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Job 13:23 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Job 13:23 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Job 13:23 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Job 13:23 - The Biblical Illustrator

Job 13:23 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Job 13:23 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Job 13:23 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 13:23 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes