Job 6:10
Good News Translation
If I knew he would, I would leap for joy, no matter how great my pain. I know that God is holy; I have never opposed what he commands.

New Revised Standard Version
This would be my consolation; I would even exult in unrelenting pain; for I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

Contemporary English Version
Then I would be comforted, knowing that in all of my pain I have never disobeyed God.

New American Bible
Then I should still have consolation and could exult through unremitting pain, because I have not transgressed the commands of the Holy One.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.

Then.

Job 3:22 And they rejoice exceedingly when they have found the grave?

Job 21:33 He hath been acceptable to the gravel of Cocytus, and he shall draw every man after him, and there are innumerable before him.

I would.

Job 9:4 He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath resisted him, and hath had peace?

let him not.

Deuteronomy 29:20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,

Romans 8:32 He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things?

2 Peter 2:4,5 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them, drawn down by infernal ropes to the lower hell, unto torments, to be reserved unto judgment: . . .

have not concealed.

Job 23:12 I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Psalm 37:30 The mouth of the just shall meditate wisdom: and his tongue shall speak judgment.

Psalm 40:9,10 I have declared thy justice in a great church, lo, I will not restrain my lips: O Lord, thou knowest it. . . .

Psalm 71:17,18 Thou hast taught me, O God, from my youth: and till now I will declare thy wonderful works. . . .

Psalm 119:13 With my lips I have pronounced all the judgments of thy mouth.

Acts 20:20,27 How I have kept back nothing that was profitable to you, but have preached it to you, and taught you publicly, and from house to house, . . .

the Holy One.

Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel. And thou shalt say to them: Be ye holy, because I the Lord your God am holy.

1 Samuel 2:2 There is none holy as the Lord is: for there is no other beside thee, and there is none strong like our God.

Isaiah 30:11,12 Take away from me the way, turn away the path from me, let the Holy One of Israel cease from before us. . . .

Isaiah 57:15 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Hosea 11:9 I will not execute the fierceness of my wrath: I will not return to destroy Ephraim: because I am God, and not man: the holy one in the midst of thee, and I will not enter into the city.

Habakkuk 1:12 Wast thou not from the beginning, O Lord my God, my holy one, and we shall not die? Lord, thou hast appointed him for judgment: and made him strong for correction.

Habakkuk 3:3 God will come from the south, and the holy one from mount Pharan: His glory covered the heavens, and the earth is full of his praise.

Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write: These things saith the Holy One and the true one, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and no man shutteth, shutteth and no man openeth:

Revelation 4:8 And the four living creatures had each of them six wings: and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

Context
Job Replies: My Complaint is Just
9And that he that hath begun may destroy me, that he may let loose his hand, and cut me off? 10And that this may be my comfort, that afflicting me with sorrow, he spare not, nor I contradict the words of the Holy one.11For what is my strength, that I can hold out? or what is my end, that I should keep patience?…
Cross References
Job 11:4
For thou hast said: My word is pure, and I am clean in thy sight.

Job 15:11
Is it a great matter that God should comfort thee? but thy wicked words hinder this.

Job 22:22
Receive the law of his mouth, and lay up his words in thy heart.

Job 23:11
My foot hath followed his steps, I have kept his way, and have not declined from it.

Job 23:12
I have not departed from the commandments of his lips, and the words of his mouth I have hid in my bosom.

Psalm 119:50
This hath comforted me in my humiliation: because thy word hath enlivened me.

Job 6:9
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