The Meaning of Job 9:33 Explained

Job 9:33

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

YLT: If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both.

Darby: There is not an umpire between us, who should lay his hand upon us both.

ASV: There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 9:33 Mean?

Context Summary

Job 9:1-35 - "the Daysman"
Ponder the sublimity of the conceptions of God given in this magnificent passage. To God are attributed the earthquake that rocks the pillars on which the world rests, Job 9:6; the eclipse which hides the heavenly bodies, Job 9:7; the storm in which he bows the heavens and treads majestically on the waves, Job 9:8; and the creation of the constellations, Job 9:9. Who can dare to argue with or call to account so great a God as this? Job 9:10-19. Even if a man be outwardly and inwardly righteous (that is, so far as the measure of his light), yet in such a Presence the heart of the most perfect must condemn him. "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves"¦. God is light, and in Him is no darkness at all." We cannot but feel that this old-world thinker had a truer view of that conscious imperfection and sin which must be experienced by every mortal who has a right appreciation of the holiness of God, than have those who refuse to say the Lord's Prayer because it contains a petition for forgiveness!
Truly we need that Daysman! But we have Him in Jesus our Mediator, who can lay His hand on God and us, Job 9:33; 1 Timothy 2:5. [source]

Chapter Summary: Job 9

1  Job acknowledges God's justice
22  Man's innocence is not to be condemned by afflictions

What do the individual words in Job 9:33 mean?

nor is there between us any mediator [Who] may lay his hand on the two of us
לֹ֣א יֵשׁ־ בֵּינֵ֣ינוּ מוֹכִ֑יחַ יָשֵׁ֖ת יָד֣וֹ עַל־ שְׁנֵֽינוּ

לֹ֣א  nor 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: לוּ  
Sense: if, oh that!, if only!.
יֵשׁ־  is  there 
Parse: Adverb
Root: יֵשׁ  
Sense: being, existence, substance, there is or are.
בֵּינֵ֣ינוּ  between  us 
Parse: Preposition, first person common plural
Root: בַּיִן 
Sense: between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between.
מוֹכִ֑יחַ  any  mediator 
Parse: Verb, Hifil, Participle, masculine singular
Root: יָכַח  
Sense: to prove, decide, judge, rebuke, reprove, correct, be right.
יָשֵׁ֖ת  [Who]  may  lay 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect Jussive, third person masculine singular
Root: שִׁית  
Sense: to put, set.
יָד֣וֹ  his  hand 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, third person masculine singular
Root: יָד  
Sense: hand.
שְׁנֵֽינוּ  the  two  of  us 
Parse: Number, mdc, first person common plural
Root: שְׁנַיִם  
Sense: two.

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