Job 9:33
If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.
In Context
32But if a man like myself — I answer him, We come together into judgment.
34He doth turn aside from off me his rod, And His terror doth not make me afraid,
Cross References
1 Kings 3:16then come in do two women, harlots, unto the king, and stand before him,
Job 33:23If there is by him a messenger, An interpreter — one of a thousand, To declare for man his uprightness:
Psalms 139:5Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.
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 →