Job 9:34
Let him but remove from me his rod, and let not his dread terrify me:
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
In Context
33There is no one who can decide between us, who could lay his hand upon us both.
35Then would I speak, and not fear him; for the like I feel not within me.
Cross References
Job 13:11Doth not his excellency terrify you? and his dread fall upon you?
Job 23:15Therefore am I terrified at his presence: I will reflect, and be in dread of him.
Job 31:23For dreaded by me was the calamitous punishment of God, and against his highness I can accomplish nothing.
Job 37:1At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved upward out of its place.
Psalms 39:11(39:12) When thou with corrections chastisest man for iniquity, thou causest his excellence to melt away as [if eaten by] the moth: yea, nothing but vanity is every man. 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 →