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Job 9:32 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 9:32Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 9:328 words
HebrewMeaning
כִּיkiy
forconjH3588
+ (forasmuch · inasmuch · where-) as · assured ···
לֹאlōʾ
notparticleH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
אִ֣ישׁʾiyš
he is a humannounH376
another · any · a certain · champion ···
כָּמֹ֣/נִיkāmōniy
like mepronH3644
as (it were · well as) · in comparison of · like (as ···
אֶֽעֱנֶ֑/נּוּʾeʿĕnenw
I will answer himverbH6030
afflict (by mistake for
נָב֥וֹאnābwōʾ
we will comeverbH935
apply · attain · be · befall ···
יַ֝חְדָּ֗וyaḥədāw
togetheradvH3162
at all · both · likewise · only ···
בַּ/מִּשְׁפָּֽטbamišəpāṭ
in judgmentpronH4941
adversary · charge · crime · custom ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 9 §59
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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