Job 9:33
There is no arbiter betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
In Context
32For He is not a man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in judgment.
34Let Him take His rod away from me, and let not His terror make me afraid;
Cross References
1 Kings 3:16Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.
Job 33:23If there be for him an angel, an intercessor, one among a thousand, to vouch for a man's uprightness;
Psalms 139:5Thou hast hemmed me in behind and before, and laid Thy hand upon 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 →