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32 For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him,
    that we should come to trial together.(A)
33 There is no mediator[a] between us,
    who might lay his hand on us both.(B)
34 If he would take his rod away from me
    and not let dread of him terrify me,(C)
35 then I would speak without fear of him,
    for I know I am not what I am thought to be.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 9.33 Another reading is Would that there were a mediator
  2. 9.35 Cn: Heb for I am not so in myself

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”