King James Version
Job 9:34 in the King James Version says “Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:” — study this verse from Job chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:”
Job 9:34 · KJV
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:
Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me. it is: Heb. I am not so with myself
KJV Study — Public Domain
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“his rod”
H7626a scion, i.e., (literally) a stick (for punishing, writing, fighting, ruling, walking, etc.) or (figuratively) a clan
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
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