Job 9:32
For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me,
33There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor as the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?
Job 9:14What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?
Job 13:18If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just.
Job 33:7But yet let not my wonder terrify thee, and let not my eloquence be burdensome to thee.
Job 35:5Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee.
Ecclesiastes 6:10He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that 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 →