Job 9:33
There is no one who can decide between us, who could lay his hand upon us both.
Leeser Tanakh
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, like me, that I could answer him, that we should enter together into a contest.
34Let him but remove from me his rod, and let not his dread terrify me:
Cross References
1 Kings 3:16Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and placed themselves before him.
Job 33:23If there be now about him one single angel, as defender, one out of a thousand, to tell for man his uprightness:
Psalms 139:5Behind and before hast thou hedged me in, and thou placest upon me thy hand.
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 →