Job 9:32
But if a man like myself — I answer him, We come together into judgment.
Young's Literal Translation
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 corruption Thou dost dip me, And my garments have abominated me.
33If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both.
Cross References
Numbers 23:19God [is] not a man — and lieth, And a son of man — and repenteth! Hath He said — and doth He not do [it]? And spoken — and doth He not confirm it?
Job 9:14How much less do I — I answer Him? Choose out my words with Him?
Job 13:18Lo, I pray you, I have set in order the cause, I have known that I am righteous.
Job 33:7Lo, my terror doth not frighten thee, And my burden on thee is not heavy.
Job 35:5Behold attentively the heavens — and see, And behold the clouds, They have been higher than thou.
Ecclesiastes 6:10What [is] that which hath been? already is its name called, and it is known that it [is] man, and he is not able to contend with him who is 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 →