Job 9:32
For God is not a mortal being like me, I can't defend myself or take him to court.
Free Bible 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
31you would toss me into a slime pit so that even my own clothes would hate me!
33If only there was an arbitrator who could bring us both together!
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God isn't a human being who would lie. He's not a mere mortal who changes his mind. Does he say he's going to do something but doesn't? Does he make promises he doesn't carry out?
Job 9:14So how much less could I answer God, or choose my words to argue with him!
Job 13:18Look, I've prepared my case—I know I will be proved right.
Job 33:7See here, you don't need to be frightened of me. I won't be too hard on you.
Job 35:5Just look up at the sky and see. Observe the clouds high above you.
Ecclesiastes 6:10Everything that exists has already been described. Everyone knows what people are like, and that you can't win an argument with a superior.
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 →