Job 9:33
Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
Majority Standard Bible
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 can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
34Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.
Cross References
1 Kings 3:16At that time two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him.
Job 33:23Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man what is right for him,
Psalms 139:5You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon 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 →