Job's claim challenges this notion, suggesting that suffering can occur even to the innocent. This anticipates the New Testament revelation of Jesus Christ, who was sinless yet suffered (1 Peter 2:22-24). Job's assertion also echoes the Psalms, where the psalmists often plead their innocence before God (Psalm 26:1).

though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand?

10 “I loathe my very life; therefore I will give free rein to my complaint and speak out in the bitterness of my soul. 2 I say to God: Do not declare me guilty, but tell me what charges you have against me. 3 Does it please you to oppress me, to spurn the work of your hands, while you smile on the plans of the wicked? 4 Do you have eyes of flesh?

Job prayed: “Here’s what I want to say: Don’t, God, bring in a verdict of guilty without letting me know the charges you’re bringing. How does this fit into what you once called ‘good’— giving me a hard time, spurning me, a life you shaped by your very …

Verse Job 10:7. Thou knowest that I am not wicked — While thou hast this knowledge of me and my conduct, why appear to be sifting me as if in order to find out sin; and though none can be found, treating me as though I were a transgressor?

that is, out of his afflicting hand, until he please to release him from it himself; for this is not to be understood of deliverance from the avenging hand of justice, from hell and wrath, and everlasting destruction; for there is one that can and does deliver his people from sin and Satan; from the world, the law, its curses and condemnation ...

Job 10:7-17 though you know that I am not guilty and that no one can rescue me from your hand? “Your hands shaped me and made me. Will you now turn and destroy me? Remember that you molded me like clay. Will you now turn me to dust again? Did you not pour me out... Read verse in New International Version

Read Job 10:7 NKJV in the New King James Bible: "Although You know that I am not wicked, And there is no one who can deliver from Your hand?"

Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands. Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin.

Let us harbour no hard thoughts of God; we shall hereafter see there was no cause for them. Job is sure that God does not discover things, nor judge of them, as men do; therefore he thinks it strange that God continues him under affliction, as if he must take time to inquire into his sin.