Job 9:28
I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
Cross-references
Job 9:2 asks how a mortal can be right before God — the same dilemma that leads Job to fear he won't be held innocent.
Job 9:20 states that even if blameless, God would prove him perverse — directly supporting Job's certainty of not being acquitted.
Job 9:21 declares blamelessness yet loathing of life — the tension between innocence and condemnation deepens his fear.
In Job 30:15, terrors pursue him like wind — echoing the fear of sufferings in 9:28, deepening his lament.
In Job 33:9, Job claims he is innocent — contrasting with his fear in 9:28 that God will not hold him innocent.
In Job 21:6, Job's dismay at the wicked's prosperity parallels his fear in 9:28 — both visceral reactions to God's ways.
Job 14:16 wishes God would stop watching sin — contrasting with Job's fear that God scrutinizes his pains.
Exodus 20:7 uses the same phrase 'will not hold guiltless' — Job fears God's same principle applied to his sorrows.
Psalm 88:15 echoes Job's affliction from youth and God's terrors — reinforcing the theme of divine suffering and fear.
Psalm 88:16 describes God's wrath sweeping over the psalmist — directly matching Job's fear that God will not acquit.
Psalm 119:120 explicitly links fear of God's judgments with trembling flesh — a direct parallel to Job's fear of his sorrows.
Psalm 130:3 asks who could stand if God marked iniquities — echoing Job's certainty that God will not acquit him.
In 1 Peter 1:6, believers rejoice in trials — contrasting with Job's fear of sufferings here.
In 1 Kings 2:9, David uses the same phrase 'not hold him guiltless' about Shimei — a human judgment parallel to Job's fear of divine condemnation.
In Psalm 13:2, the psalmist has sorrow daily — a lament parallel to Job's fear of his sufferings.