Job 9:34 Explained in Context

Verse 25. ²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Verse 26. ²⁶ They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Verse 27. ²⁷ If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:

Verse 28. ²⁸ I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

Verse 29. ²⁹ If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?

Verse 30. ³⁰ If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

Verse 31. ³¹ Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Verse 32. ³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.

Verse 33. ³³ Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

Verse 34. ³⁴ Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

Verse 35. ³⁵ Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.