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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Job 9:33

Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, (a) [that] might lay his hand upon us both.

(a) Who might make an accord between God and me, speaking of impatience, and yet confessing God to be just in punishing him.

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See also Job 9:33 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Job 9:33. _NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAY'S-MAN_] בינינו מוכיח _beyneynu_ _mochiach_, a _reprover, arguer_, or _umpire between us_. DAY'S-MAN, in our law, means an arbitrator, or umpire between party...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAYSMAN - Margin, One that should argue, or, umpire. The word daysman in English means ” “an umpire or arbiter, a mediator.” Webster. Why such a man is called a daysman I do not k...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of we...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Job again takes up his complaint, but in a quieter tone, so that he is able to imagine after all a way in which he might maintain his cause before God. He complains first of the shortness of his life....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NEITHER IS THERE. Some codices, with Septuagint and Syriac, read "Oh that there were". ANY DAYSMAN. any umpire, arbiter, or mediator. In Job's case He was found in Elihu; in ours, in Christ....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _any daysman_ i. e. any umpire, or, arbiter. The word possibly comes from the Lat. _diem dicere_, to fix a day for hearing a cause. For what art thou That mak'st thyself his dayes-man to prolong Th...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The preceding verses described how unavailing all Job's efforts were to make out his innocence in the face of the fixed resolution of God to hold him guilty. Now Job comes back to what is the real dif...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    ANY DAY'S-MAN— _There is no one who may judge between us; who may lay his hand,_ &c. Houbigant. The laying the hand on both parties, implies a coercive power to enforce the execution of his decrees. T...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. There is no mediator between the man and his creator. (Job 9:32-35) TEXT 9:32-35 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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAYSMAN BETWIXT US, THAT MIGHT LAY HIS HAND UPON US BOTH._ Daysman between us, that might lay his hand upon us both - mediator or umpire х_ MOWKIYACH_ (H3198), an arbitrator, fr...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:33 umpire (b-5) Or 'mediator.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DAYSMAN] an Old English word meaning 'umpire,' or 'arbitrator'; one who mediates between two parties. 33-35. Translate (with Cox): 'There is no arbiter between us to lay his hand upon us both, who wou...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    JOB'S SECOND SPEECH (JOB 9:10) Job 9:10 are, perhaps, in their religious and moral aspects the most difficult in the book. Driver in his 'Introduction to the Literature of the OT.' analyses them as f...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 9 JOB REPLIES TO BILDAD’S F...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    This is a wonderful passage. Job wanted someone, like a lawyer, to help him to speak to God. These verses describe Jesus’ work (1 Timothy 2:5). Jesus is God (Hebrews 1:3). But he became a man (Hebrew...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    FOR HE IS NOT A MAN, AS I AM... — Is not that confession, if we believe that such a daysman as Job longed for has been given, itself a witness that it came from God, and was given by God? The light th...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹ֣א יֵשׁ ־בֵּינֵ֣ינוּ מֹוכִ֑יחַ יָשֵׁ֖ת יָדֹ֣ו...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN JOB 9:1; Job 10:1 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply. Yes, yes; it...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “THE DAYSMAN” Job 9:1 Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6;...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Job now answered Bildad. He first admitted the truth of the general proposition, Of a truth I know that it IS so; and then propounded the great question, which he subsequently proceeded to discuss in...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _There. Septuagint, "O that an umpire, ( or mediator) were between us, and one arguing and giving ear in the midst of both!"_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. (29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (30) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NEITHER IS THERE ANY DAYSMAN BETWIXT US,.... Or "one that reproves" q; who upon hearing a cause reproves him that is found guilty, or is blameworthy, or has done injury to another; but there is no suc...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, [that] might lay his hand upon us both. Ver. 33. _Neither is there any daysman betwixt us_] Heb. Any arguer or reprover, as Genesis 31:24. We call him an umpi...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _For he is not a man as I am_ But one infinitely superior to me in majesty and power, wisdom and justice. _That I should answer him _ That I should presume to debate my cause with him, or answer his a...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    JOB INSISTS THAT GOD VISITS ALSO THE RIGHTEOUS WITH AFFLICTION...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Neither is there any daysman, arbitrator or mediator, BETWIXT US THAT MIGHT LAY HIS HAND UPON US BOTH, acting as umpire between God and Job to settle his case; for God was both accuser and judge....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    HOW CAN MAN BE JUST BEFORE GOD? (vv.1-13) Job's reply to Bildad occupies two Chapter s, 35 verses longer than Bildad's arguments had taken. But Job acknowledged, "Truly, I know it is so," that is, h...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    ANY DAYSMAN: _ Heb._ one that should argue. Or, Umpire...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Job desires the services of someone who could become. mediator between himself and God. This cry for an umpire or mediator will be ultimately fulfilled in Jesus Christ (1 Timothy 2:5)....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    25-35 What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time conti...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    DAYSMAN; or, _a reprover_; or, _a judge_ or _umpire_, whose office was to reprove the guilty person. _That might lay his hand upon us both_, i.e. use his power and authority to appoint the time and pl...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Job 9:33 Nor H3426 mediator H3198 (H8688) lay H7896 (H8799) hand H3027 both H8147 is there -...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Job 9:32 I. This desire of Job's is to be studied, not merely as the experience of an individual under peculiar circumstances, but as a _human_experience, the germs of which are in man as man; in oth...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Job answers Bildad, denying he is a hypocrite. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad. CONCLUSION: Man is an unequal match for his Maker, either in dispute or combat. If God should deal with any of...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Job 9:5. _Removeth the mountains,_ by earthquakes. The great mountain ranges have continuous caverns, with interior rivers and lakes. Where liases, iron and sulphur abound, volcanoes form their beds o...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOB—NOTE ON JOB 9:32 THERE IS NO ARBITER. Job criticizes his friends for not comforting him. He longs for an impartial party to hear his case (see v. Job 9:33,...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD_ Strongly affirms the truth of Bildad’s speech as to God’s justice (Job 9:1). Declares the impossibility of fallen man establishing his righteousness with God. The same, already...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOB 9:1 Job, in answer to Bildad, admits the truth of his arguments, but declines to attempt the justification which can alone entitle him to accept the favourable side of Bildad's alterna...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So Job answers him and he said, I know it is true (Job 9:1-2): What? That God is fair. That God is just. Now that is something that we need to all know. That is true. God is righteous. God is just. Th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 John 2:1; 1 John 2:2; 1 Kings 3:16; 1 Samuel 2:25; Job 9:19;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Days — man — Or, umpire. Lay his hand — Order and govern us in pleading; and oblige us to stand to his decision. Our Lord Jesus is now the blessed days — man, who has mediated between heaven and earth...

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