Job 9:33
There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
In Context
32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
34Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:16Then two women who were harlots came to the king, and stood before him.
Job 33:23If there be with him a [heavenly] agent, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him,
Psalms 139:5Thou have beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.
Matthew Henry on Job 9:26-35
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey. 27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: 28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. 29 If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? 30 If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; 31 Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor… Read the whole commentary →