Job 9:32
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.
Darby Translation
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
31Then wouldest thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes would abhor me.
33There is not an umpire between us, who should lay his hand upon us both.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good?
Job 9:14How much less shall I answer him, choose out my words [to strive] with him?
Job 13:18Behold now, I have ordered the cause; I know that I shall be justified.
Job 33:7Behold, my terror shall not make thee afraid, nor my burden be heavy upon thee.
Job 35:5Look unto the heavens and see; and survey the skies: they are higher than thou.
Ecclesiastes 6:10That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.
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 →