Job 9:32
For he is not a man, like me, that I could answer him, that we should enter together into a contest.
Leeser Tanakh
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
31Even then wouldst thou plunge me in the ditch, that my own clothes would render me abhorred.
33There is no one who can decide between us, who could lay his hand upon us both.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie; nor a son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? and hath he spoken, and shall he not fulfill it?
Job 9:14How much less then could I answer him, and select my words [to contend] with him?
Job 13:18Behold now, I have arrayed my cause: I know that I shall be indeed justified.
Job 33:7Behold, dread of me cannot terrify thee, and my pressure will not be too heavy upon thee.
Job 35:5Look unto the heavens, and see; and gaze on the skies which are higher than thou.
Ecclesiastes 6:10That which hath been is already called by its name, and it is known that he is a man: and he is not able to contend with him that is mightier than he.
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 →