Job 9:33
If there were a mediator between us, || He places his hand on us both.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
In Context
32But if a man like myself—I answer Him, || We come together into judgment.
34He turns aside His rod from off me, || And His terror does not make me afraid,
Cross References
1 Kings 3:16Then two women, harlots, come to the king, and they stand before him,
Job 33:23If there is a messenger by him, || An interpreter—one of a thousand, || To declare for man his uprightness,
Psalms 139:5You have besieged me behind and before, || And You place Your hand on 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 →