Job 9:32
For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
In Context
31yet you would plunge me in filth, and my own garments would abhor me.
33There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God is not like a man, so that he would lie, nor is he like a son of man, so that he would be changed. Therefore, having spoken, will he not act? Has he ever spoken, and not fulfilled?
Job 9:14what am I then, that I should answer him and exchange words with him?
Job 13:18If I will be judged, I know that I will be found to be just.
Job 33:7So, truly, do not let my wonders terrify you, and do not let my eloquence be burdensome to you.
Job 35:5Look up towards heaven and consider; also, think about the sky, which is higher than you.
Ecclesiastes 6:10Whoever shall be in the future, his name has already been called. And it is known that he is a man and that he is not able to contend in judgment against one who is stronger than himself.
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 →