Job 9:32
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
World English Bible
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
31yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes will abhor me.
33There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should repent. Has he said, and he won’t do it? Or has he spoken, and he won’t make it good?
Job 9:14How much less will I answer him, and choose my words to argue with him?
Job 13:18See now, I have set my cause in order. I know that I am righteous.
Job 33:7Behold, my terror will not make you afraid, neither will my pressure be heavy on you.
Job 35:5Look to the skies, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
Ecclesiastes 6:10Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier 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 →