New International Version
Job 9:32
32“He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court.
Job 9:32 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“For He is not a man, as I am, That I may answer Him, And that we should go to court together.
- New Living Translation (NLT)“God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.
Context of Job 9:32
30Even if I washed myself with soap and my hands with cleansing powder, 31you would plunge me into a slime pit so that even my clothes would detest me. “He is not a mere mortal like me that I might answer him, that we might confront each other in court. 33If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together, 34someone to remove God’s rod from me, so that his terror would frighten me no more.
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כִּי־לֹא־אִ֣ישׁ כָּמֹ֣נִי אֶֽעֱנֶ֑נּוּ נָב֥וֹא יַ֝חְדָּ֗ו בַּמִּשְׁפָּֽט׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 9:32
- Job 33:12“But I tell you, in this you are not right, for God is greater than any mortal.
- Job 35:5Look up at the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds so high above you.
- Numbers 23:19God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
- 1 Samuel 16:7But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
- Ecclesiastes 6:10Whatever exists has already been named, and what humanity is has been known; no one can contend with someone who is stronger.
- Isaiah 45:9“Woe to those who quarrel with their Maker, those who are nothing but potsherds among the potsherds on the ground. Does the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you making?’ Does your work say, ‘The potter has no hands’?
- Jeremiah 49:19“Like a lion coming up from Jordan’s thickets to a rich pastureland, I will chase Edom from its land in an instant. Who is the chosen one I will appoint for this? Who is like me and who can challenge me? And what shepherd can stand against me?”
- Romans 9:20But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ”
- 1 John 3:20If our hearts condemn us, we know that God is greater than our hearts, and he knows everything.
- Job 13:18Now that I have prepared my case, I know I will be vindicated.
- Job 23:3If only I knew where to find him; if only I could go to his dwelling!
- Psalms 143:2Do not bring your servant into judgment, for no one living is righteous before you.
Commentaries on Job 9:32
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 32For he is not a man as I am - I cannot contend with him as with one of my fellows in a court of justice.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 32For he is not a man as I am - He is infinitely superior to me in majesty and power. The idea is, that the contest would be unequal, and that he might as well surrender without bringing the matter to an issue. It is evident that the disposition of Job to yield, was rather because he saw that God was superior in power than because he saw that he was right, and that he felt that if he had ability to manage the cause as well as God could, the matter would not…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-35Verses 25-35 What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and would not relent, was the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 32-33A mediator does not judge God and man. Instead, the mediator helps bring them together (see 16:19–21).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3232. (Ec 6:10; Is 45:9).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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