Add parallel Print Page Options

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 between us,
    that might lay his hand on us both.
34 Let him take his rod away from me.
    Let his terror not make me afraid;
35 then I would speak, and not fear him,
    for I am not so in myself.

Read full chapter

32 God is not a man like me—someone I could answer—
    so that we could come together in court.
33 Oh, that[a] there were a mediator between us;
    he would lay his hand on both of us,
34     remove his rod from me,
        so his fury wouldn’t frighten me.
35 Then I would speak—unafraid—
    for I’m not that way.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Job 9:33 Or There is no