Job 9:33

There is no one who could both prevail in argument and in placing his hand between the two.

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In The King James Version

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

In Context

32For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment.

34Let him take his staff away from me, and let not the fear of him terrify me.

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Cross References

1 Kings 3:16Then two women harlots went to the king, and they stood before him.

Job 33:23If there were an angel speaking for him, one among thousands, to declare the fairness of the man,

Psalms 139:5Preserve me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner, and rescue me from men of iniquity. They have decided to supplant my steps.

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 →

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