John Gill Commentary Job 10:7

"Although thou knowest that I am not wicked, And there is none that can deliver out of thy hand?" — Job 10:7 (ASV)

You know that I am not wicked
Or "in", or "upon your knowledge ^F1 [it is] that I am not wicked"; it is a thing well known, quite clear, and manifest, without making such a search and inquiry: not that he thought himself without sin, and could appeal to the omniscience of God for the truth of that; for he had confessed before that he was a sinner and wicked by nature and birth, and due to the many infirmities of life; see (Job 7:20) (9:29) ; but that he was not that wicked person, and an hypocrite, as his friends took him to be, and as might be concluded from the sore afflictions that were upon him; he did not live in sin, nor indulge himself in a vicious course of life; sin had not the dominion over him, and he had not secretly cherished any reigning iniquity, and lived in the commission of it:

and yet God pursued him so closely and examined him so strictly, as if he suspected he was thus guilty:

and [there is] none that can deliver out of your hand ;
that is, out of his afflicting hand, until he please to release him from it himself; for this is not to be understood of deliverance from the avenging hand of justice, from hell and wrath, and everlasting destruction; for there is one that can and does deliver his people from sin and Satan; from the world, the law, its curses and condemnation, and from wrath to come; and from the hands of justice, having made full satisfaction to it:

but what Job observes that God knew was, that neither he himself, nor any angel, nor man, nor any creature, could take him out of his hand in which he was; and therefore suggests, not only that his condition was extremely bad, distressed, and miserable, but that there was no necessity for God to be so quick upon him, and so strict in his inquiry into him; nor of enclosing him on all hands with afflictions, since, there was no danger of his escaping from him, or of others assisting him in facilitating such an attempt: and this he full well knew; for so the words are in connection with the preceding: "and you know [that] there is none" ^F2 , as well as with what follows, as some think.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F1: (Kted le) "in notitia tua est", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Beza; so Michaelis.
• F2: So Bolducius, Drusius, Schmidt, Michaelis, and Bar Tzemach.