Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his feare astonish me:
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
In Context
33Neyther is there any vmpire that might lay his hand vpon vs both.
35Then will I speake, and feare him not: but because I am not so, I holde me still.
Cross References
Job 13:11Shall not his excellencie make you afraid? and his feare fall vpon you?
Job 23:15Therefore I am troubled at his presence, and in considering it, I am afraid of him.
Job 31:23For Gods punishment was fearefull vnto me, and I could not be deliuered from his highnes.
Job 37:1At this also mine heart is astonied, and is mooued out of his place.
Psalms 39:11When thou with rebukes doest chastise man for iniquitie, thou as a mothe makest his beautie to consume: surely euery man is vanitie. 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 →