The Meaning of Job 10:6 Explained

Job 10:6

KJV: That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?

YLT: That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?

Darby: That thou searchest after mine iniquity, and inquirest into my sin;

ASV: That thou inquirest after mine iniquity, And searchest after my sin,

KJV Reverse Interlinear

That thou enquirest  after mine iniquity,  and searchest  after my sin? 

What does Job 10:6 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 10:1-22 - Soul Bitterness
In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between them, but must hurry on to achieve His design, Job 10:5; of reversing the careful providence which had watched over his earlier years, Job 10:12; of hunting and playing with him as a wild beast with his prey, Job 10:16-17; and asks that he may be allowed speedily to enter the land of Sheol, Job 10:18-22.
As we read these complaints, we may remember days in our lives when we uttered similar ones, but we are without excuse. And when we are tempted in this direction, it is for us to remember that probably we are being tried to teach the manifold wisdom of God, and that the works of God should be made manifest in us, Ephesians 3:10; John 9:3. It will enable us to endure, if we remember that God has conferred on us high honor, by choosing us to show that we can stand the fire, like those iron safes, blackened by smoke, which the makers place in the shop windows to prove the stability of their workmanship. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 10

1  Job, taking liberty of complaint, expostulates with God about his afflictions
18  He complains of life, and craves a little ease before death

What do the individual words in Job 10:6 mean?

That You should seek for my iniquity and my sin search out
כִּֽי־ תְבַקֵּ֥שׁ לַעֲוֺנִ֑י וּ֭לְחַטָּאתִ֥י ؟ תִדְרֽוֹשׁ

כִּֽי־  That 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: כִּי 
Sense: that, for, because, when, as though, as, because that, but, then, certainly, except, surely, since.
תְבַקֵּ֥שׁ  You  should  seek 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: בָּקַשׁ  
Sense: to seek, require, desire, exact, request.
לַעֲוֺנִ֑י  for  my  iniquity 
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, common singular construct, first person common singular
Root: עָוֹן  
Sense: perversity, depravity, iniquity, guilt or punishment of iniquity.
וּ֭לְחַטָּאתִ֥י  and  my  sin 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l, Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: חַטָּאָה 
Sense: sin, sinful.
؟ תִדְרֽוֹשׁ  search  out 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, second person masculine singular
Root: דַּרְיׄושׁ 
Sense: to resort to, seek, seek with care, enquire, require.