14 If I sinned, you would be watching me and would not let my offense go unpunished.
14 If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.
14 If I sin, you watch me and do not acquit me of my iniquity.
14 That if I so much as missed a step, you'd notice and pounce, wouldn't let me get by with a thing.
14 If I sin, then You mark me, And will not acquit me of my iniquity.
14 was to watch me, and if I sinned, you would not forgive my guilt.
16 Surely then you will count my steps but not keep track of my sin.
16 For now thou numberest my steps: dost thou not watch over my sin?
16 For then you would number my steps; you would not keep watch over my sin;
16 You'll watch over every step I take, but you won't keep track of my missteps.
16 For now You number my steps, But do not watch over my sin.
16 For then you would guard my steps, instead of watching for my sins.
(Read Job 14:16-22)
Job's faith and hope spake, and grace appeared to revive; but depravity again prevailed. He represents God as carrying matters to extremity against him. The Lord must prevail against all who contend with him. God may send disease and pain, we may lose all comfort in those near and dear to us, every hope of earthly happiness may be destroyed, but God will receive the believer into realms of eternal happiness. But what a change awaits the prosperous unbeliever! How will he answer when God shall call him to his tribunal? The Lord is yet upon a mercy-seat, ready to be gracious. Oh that sinners would be wise, that they would consider their latter end! While man's flesh is upon him, that is, the body he is so loth to lay down, it shall have pain; and while his soul is within him, that is, the spirit he is so loth to resign, it shall mourn. Dying work is hard work; dying pangs often are sore pangs. It is folly for men to defer repentance to a death-bed, and to have that to do which is the one thing needful, when unfit to do anything.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 10:14
Commentary on Job 10:14-22
(Read Job 10:14-22)
Job did not deny that as a sinner he deserved his sufferings; but he thought that justice was executed upon him with peculiar rigour. His gloom, unbelief, and hard thoughts of God, were as much to be ascribed to Satan's inward temptations, and his anguish of soul, under the sense of God's displeasure, as to his outward trials, and remaining depravity. Our Creator, become in Christ our Redeemer also, will not destroy the work of his hands in any humble believer; but will renew him unto holiness, that he may enjoy eternal life. If anguish on earth renders the grave a desirable refuge, what will be their condition who are condemned to the blackness of darkness for ever? Let every sinner seek deliverance from that dreadful state, and every believer be thankful to Jesus, who delivereth from the wrath to come.