“For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.”
Job asserts that God is not a man as he is, so that he might answer him and they might come together in judgment, expressing the fundamental asymmetry between God and humans that prevents dialogue. The inability to come together as equals in judgment means that Job has no recourse or appeal. The inequality between human and divine makes justice impossible.
Church Fathers on Job 9:32
Neither is there any that is able to convict both of us, and to lay his hand upon us both. It sounds hard that any should be sought who might convict God, but it will not be hard, if we recall to mind what He Himself says by another Prophet; for He charges us by Isaiah, Cease to do evil, learn to do well. Seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. Come, and convict Me, saith the Lord. For one whom we convict, we encounter with the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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