Job 10 · a question people ask
Is Job saying he has never sinned?
He says to God, "you know that I am not wicked" (10:7). But he speaks of sin with an if: "if I sin, then you mark me" (10:14), and "If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head" (10:15). He asks whether God's days are as the days of mortals, "that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin" (10:5-6), and he doesn't name a sin. The book's own words for him are "blameless and upright" (1:1), and the LORD's are the same (1:8, 2:3). Neither Job nor the book says in this chapter that he has never sinned.
The verses
“Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years, that you inquire after my iniquity, and search after my sin? Although you know that I am not wicked, there is no one who can deliver out of your hand.”
“if I sin, then you mark me. You will not acquit me from my iniquity. If I am wicked, woe to me. If I am righteous, I still will not lift up my head, being filled with disgrace, and conscious of my affliction.”
“There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job. That man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God, and turned away from evil.”
“The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.””