“Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.”
Job requests that God know that Job is not guilty and that there is none to deliver out of God's hand, acknowledging both his innocence and the totality of divine power over him. The assertion of innocence is paired with the acknowledgment that such innocence provides no protection. Job is utterly at God's mercy.
Church Fathers on Job 10:7
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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