![]() ![]() ![]() Make me to know my transgression and my sin ![]() ] Whether of ignorance or presumption, through mistake or wilfulness, voluntary or involuntary, sins of omission or commission, secret or open, or of heart, lip, or life for by this heap of words he uses in this and the next clause he means all sorts of sins, be they what they would he desires to know what they were, both with respect to quality and quantity, how great F9 they were, what heinous and capital crimes he had been guilty of, that such sore afflictions were laid upon him and how many they were, as they were suggested to be by his friends, and who indeed call them infinite, ( Job 22:5 ) and as they might seem to be from the many afflictions endured by him, which were supposed to be for sins though, as Schultens observes, such an interrogation as the force of a diminution and negation, as that of the Psalmist "how many are the days of thy servant?" ( Psalms 119:84 ) that is, how few are they? or rather none at all namely, of light and joy, of pleasure and comfort so Job represents by this his sins to be but few F11 in comparison of what his friends surmised, or might be concluded from his afflictions and indeed none at all of a capital nature, and such as were of a deep die, atrocious and enormous crimes only such as were common to good men, who all have their frailties, infirmities, and imperfections, there being not a just man that does good and sins not: Job did not pretend to be without sin, but he was not sensible of any notorious sin he could be charged with, nor was he conscious of allowing himself in any known sin, or of living and walking therein, which is inconsistent with the grace of God moreover, as he knew his interest in his living Redeemer and surety, to whom, and not to himself, his sins and transgressions were imputed he might ask, "how many iniquities and sins are to me" F12? as the words may be literally rendered that is, which are to be reckoned to me, to be placed to my account? none at all see ( 2 Corinthians 5:19 ) ( Psalms 32:1 Psalms 32:2 ) ![]()
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