Job Chapter 9 verse 32 Holy Bible
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.
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For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; that we should come together in judgment.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
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For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment.
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But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 32. - For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him; and we should come together in judgment (comp. vers. 2-14). On one of two conditions only, Job thinks, could the contest be even between himself and God. (1) If God, divesting himself of all his Divine attributes, became man; (2) if some thirdsman could be found, some umpire or arbitrator, to preside over the contest, and decide it. Neither condition, however, was (he thought) possible; and therefore no satisfactory judgment could take place. Recent commentators observe that the Christian scheme, which Job could not anticipate, provides almost a literal fulfilment of both conditions, since the God who is to judge us is "true Man," and is also a Mediator, or "Thirds-man," between us and the offended Father, with authority to make the final decision, 'the Father having committed all judgment unto the Son "(John 5:22), and" given him authority to execute judgment also'" for the very reason that he is "the Son of man" (John 5:27).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(32, 33) For he is not a man, as I am . . .--Is not that confession, if we believe that such a daysman as Job longed for has been given, itself a witness that it came from God, and was given by God? The light that has shined upon us was shining then in the heart of Job, and shines for ever in the pages of his book. Job felt, as he had been taught to feel, that in himself there not only was no hope, but no possibility of justification with God, unless there should be an umpire and impartial mediator, who could make the cause of both his own, and reconcile and unite the two in himself. It is useless to inquire what other particular form the aspiration of Job may have taken, or how far he understood and meant what he said; but here are his words, and this is what they must mean, and it is for us to adore the wisdom by which they were taught accurately to correspond with what we know has been given to us by God. We know that a daysman has laid his hand upon us both; and while we see that this is what Job wanted, we cannot but see more plainly that this is what we want. It is to be observed that this word daysman, or judge, is immediately connected with the Scripture phrase, "the day of the Lord," and St. Paul's words, "the day shall declare it" (1Corinthians 3:13).
