Job 9:33

"For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment."

Key Reflection

In Job 9:33, God asserts His divine nature by stating He is not human and thus does not need to engage in a mutual legal debate or judgment with Job. This emphasizes God's sovereignty and the incomparability of His power and wisdom to that of humans.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

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 know. The Hebrew word rendered “daysman”מוכיחmôkı̂yachis fromיכחyâkach, not used in the Qal, to be before, in front of; and then to appear, to be clear, or manifest; and in the Hiphil, to cause to be manifest, to argue, prove, convince; and then to argue down, to confute, reprove; see the word used inJob 6:25: “What doth your arguing reprove?” It then means to make a cause clear, to judge, determine, decide, as an arbiter, umpire, judge,Isaiah 11:3;Genesis 31:37.

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