(7) Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
When Job saith, as here, I am not wicked, we should compare it with what he had said before, in order to apprehend his meaning. He had before cried out, I have sinned. Chap. 7:20. And in the preceding chapter to this, again and again declared, that if he justified himself, his own mouth would condemn him; therefore by saying here, that the LORD knew he was not wicked, Job could mean nothing more, than that he was not an intentional sinner, or as Satan charged him, and his friends wanted to prove him to be, an hypocrite before GOD; a dissembler with the LORD. This view of Job's meaning, I have the more largely insisted upon, because it will serve to throw a light upon many other similar passages, in his whole history.