Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
In Context
33There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.
35I will speak, and will not fear him: for I cannot answer while I am in fear.
Cross References
Job 13:11As soon as he shall move himself, he shall trouble you: and his dread shall fall upon you.
Job 23:15And therefore I am troubled at his presence, and when I consider him I am made pensive with fear.
Job 31:23For I have always feared God as waves swelling over me, and his weight I was not able to bear.
Job 37:1At this my heart trembleth, and is moved out of its place.
Psalms 39:11Remove thy scourges from me. The strength of thy hand hath made me faint in rebukes:
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 →