Job 9:32
For he is not a man like myself, whom I might answer, nor could we come together into judgment:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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
31Then, in a ditch, wouldst thou plunge me, and mine own clothes should abhor me:
33There is not, between us, a mediator, who might lay his hand upon us both.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19GOD is, not a man, that he should lie, Nor a son of Adam, that he should repent,—Hath, he, said, and will not perform? Yea spoken, and will not make it stand fast?
Job 9:14How much less that, I, should answer him, should choose my words with him?
Job 13:18Lo! I pray you, I have set forth in order a plea, I know that, I, shall be found right.
Job 33:7Lo! my terror, will not startle thee, nor, my hand, upon thee, be heavy.
Job 35:5Look at the heavens and see,—and survey the skies—they are higher than thou.
Ecclesiastes 6:10Whatsoever one may be, long ago, was he called by his name, and it is known that it is—Son of Earth,—he cannot, therefore, contend with one stronger 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 →