Job 9:34
I wish God would stop beating me with his rod and terrifying me!
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
In Context
33If only there was an arbitrator who could bring us both together!
35Then I could speak up without being afraid—but since I am, I can't!”
Cross References
Job 13:11Isn't his majesty terrifying to you? Aren't you so afraid of him you're paralyzed?
Job 23:15That's why I'm terrified at meeting him; when I think of him I tremble with fear.
Job 31:23Since I'm terrified of what punishment God may have in store for me, and because of his majesty, I could never do this.
Job 37:1“At this my heart trembles, beating rapidly within me!
Psalms 39:11When you discipline us, reprimanding us for our sins, it's like a moth eating up what is precious to us. All of us are just a breath… Selah.
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 →