Job 9:28

If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? If he was that wicked person, that hypocrite, Bildad and his other friends took him to be, it was in vain for him to make his supplications to God, as they…

I am afraid of all my sorrows - My fears return. I dread the continuance of my griefs, and cannot close my eye to them. Thou wilt not hold me innocent - God will not remove my sorrows so as to furnish…

Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God's wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not…

As Job's afflictions were the proof of his guilt in the estimation of God, "to hold him innocent" means to remove his afflictions, as the first clause suggests.