Job 9:34
He turns aside His rod from off me, || And His terror does not make me afraid,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
In Context
33If there were a mediator between us, || He places his hand on us both.
35I speak, and do not fear Him, but I am not right with myself.”
Cross References
Job 13:11Does His excellence not terrify you? And His dread fall on you?
Job 23:15Therefore, I am troubled at His presence, I consider, and am afraid of Him.
Job 31:23For calamity [from] God [is] a dread to me, || And because of His excellence I am not able.
Job 37:1“Also, my heart trembles at this, || And it moves from its place.
Psalms 39:11With reproofs against iniquity, || You have corrected man, || And dissolve his desirableness as a moth, || Only, every man [is] vanity. 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 →