Job 9:32
But if a man like myself—I answer Him, || We come together into judgment.
Literal Standard Version
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
31Then You dip me in corruption, || And my garments have detested me.
33If there were a mediator between us, || He places his hand on us both.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God [is] not a man—and lies, || And a son of man—and relents! Has He said—and He does not do [it]? And spoken—and He does not confirm it?
Job 9:14How much less do I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Job 13:18Now behold, I have set the cause in order, || I have known that I am righteous.
Job 33:7Behold, my terror does not frighten you, || And my burden on you is not heavy.
Job 35:5Behold attentively the heavens—and see, || And behold the clouds, || They have been higher than you.
Ecclesiastes 6:10What [is] that which has been? Already is its name called, and it is known that it [is] man, || And he is not able to contend with him who is stronger 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 →