If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
Ver. 14. If I sin, then thou markest me] Though through human frailty only I offend (et nimis dedignatur mortalitatem qui peccasse erubescit), thou soon notest it, thou followest me up and down, as it were, with pen, ink, and paper, to set down my faults (Euphorm.). How, then say some, that God sees not sin in his children? Job thought the Lord was overstrict with him (which yet could not be), and that he put no difference between him and those that were notoriously wicked, as the next words import.
And thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity] That is, from the punishment of mine iniquity. Verba diffidentis, saith Mercer; words spoken according to the judgment of the flesh, saith Diodati, which holdeth God's visitations to be punishments and vengeances.