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32 “God is not a mortal like me,
    so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.
33 If only there were a mediator between us,
    someone who could bring us together.
34 The mediator could make God stop beating me,
    and I would no longer live in terror of his punishment.
35 Then I could speak to him without fear,
    but I cannot do that in my own strength.

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32 “For[a] he is not a mortal like me that I can answer him,
that we can come to trial together.[b]
33 There is no arbiter between us
that he might lay his hand on both of us.
34 May he remove his rod from me,
and let his dread not terrify me;
35 then I would speak and not fear him,[c]
for in myself I am not fearful.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:32 Or the emphatic “Indeed”
  2. Job 9:32 Literally “we come together in the justice,” or “we come together in the judgment”
  3. Job 9:35 Hebrew “and I will not fear him”
  4. Job 9:35 Literally “not so I with me”