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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 like me, that I can answer him,(A)
that we can take each other to court.
33 There is no mediator between us,
to lay his hand on both of us.
34 Let him take his rod away from me
so his terror will no longer frighten me.(B)
35 Then I would speak and not fear him.
But that is not the case; I am on my own.

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