Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his terror make me afraid.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
In Context
33There is no umpire between us who might lay his hand upon us both.
35Then I would speak, and not be afraid of him, for I am not so in myself.
Cross References
Job 13:11Shall not his majesty make you afraid, and his dread fall upon you?
Job 23:15Therefore I am terrified at his presence. When I consider, I am afraid of him.
Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me, and I can do nothing because of his majesty.
Job 37:1Yea, at this my heart trembles, and is moved out of its place.
Psalms 39:11When thou have corrected man with rebukes for iniquity, thou make his beauty to disintegrate like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.
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 →