Job 9:33
If only there was an arbitrator who could bring us both together!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
In Context
32For God is not a mortal being like me, I can't defend myself or take him to court.
34I wish God would stop beating me with his rod and terrifying me!
Cross References
1 Kings 3:16Later two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him for judgment.
Job 33:23But if an angel appears, a mediator, one of God's thousands of angels, to tell someone the right way for them,
Psalms 139:5You're always there—behind me, in front of me, and all around me. You place your caring hand on me.
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 →