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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”

32 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him,
That we should come together in judgment.
33 There is no umpire betwixt us,
That might lay his hand upon us both.
34 Let him take his rod away from me,
And let not his terror make me afraid:
35 Then would I speak, and not fear him;
For I am not so in myself.

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