King James Version
Job 9:32 in the King James Version says “For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.” — study this verse from Job chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.”
Job 9:32 · KJV
If I wash myself with snow water , and make my hands never so clean;
Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. abhor: or, make me to be abhorred
For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. any: Heb. one that should argue daysman: or, umpire
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:
KJV Study — Public Domain
(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed
not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles
“For he is not a man”
H376a man as an individual or a male person; often used as an adjunct to a more definite term (and in such cases frequently not expressed in translation)
“as I am that I should answer”
H6030properly, to eye or (generally) to heed, i.e., pay attention; by implication, to respond; by extension to begin to speak; specifically to sing, shout,
“in judgment”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
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