“That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?”
Job asks whether God seeks out Job's iniquity and searches for Job's sin, expressing concern that God is engaged in active investigation of Job's wrongdoing rather than in forgiveness. The image of searching for sin suggests the intensity of divine scrutiny and the unwillingness to overlook transgression. The divine investigation becomes oppressive.
Church Fathers on Job 10:6
My soul is weary of my life. Now whensoever the present life has once begun to grow tasteless, and the love of the Creator to become sweet, the soul inflames itself against self, that it may accuse self for the sins, wherein it formerly vindicated itself, being ignorant of the things above. Whence he yet further adds with propriety, I will let my speech go against myself. He as it were employs his speech in behalf of himself, who tries to defend by excuses the evil things…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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