Job 9:33
New International Version
If only there were someone to mediate between us, someone to bring us together,

New Living Translation
If only there were a mediator between us, someone who could bring us together.

English Standard Version
There is no arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

Berean Standard Bible
Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

King James Bible
Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

New King James Version
Nor is there any mediator between us, Who may lay his hand on us both.

New American Standard Bible
“There is no arbitrator between us, Who can place his hand upon us both.

NASB 1995
“There is no umpire between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.

NASB 1977
“There is no umpire between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.

Legacy Standard Bible
There is no adjudicator between us, Who may lay his hand upon us both.

Amplified Bible
“There is no arbitrator between us, Who could lay his hand upon us both [would that there were].

Christian Standard Bible
There is no mediator between us, to lay his hand on both of us.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There is no one to judge between us, to lay his hand on both of us.

American Standard Version
There is no umpire betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But, oh that there would be a reprover between us that he would lay his hand on the mouth of us both!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Would that he our mediator were present, and a reprover, and one who should hear the cause between both.

Contemporary English Version
Who could possibly judge between the two of us?

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.

English Revised Version
There is no daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
There is no mediator between us to put his hand on both of us.

Good News Translation
But there is no one to step between us--no one to judge both God and me.

International Standard Version
There is not yet a mediator between us, who would set his hand on the two of us,

JPS Tanakh 1917
There is no arbiter betwixt us, That might lay his hand upon us both.

Literal Standard Version
If there were a mediator between us, | He places his hand on us both.

Majority Standard Bible
Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.

New American Bible
Would that there were an arbiter between us, who could lay his hand upon us both

NET Bible
Nor is there an arbiter between us, who might lay his hand on us both,

New Revised Standard Version
There is no umpire between us, who might lay his hand on us both.

New Heart English Bible
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

Webster's Bible Translation
Neither is there any judge between us, that might lay his hand upon us both.

World English Bible
There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

Young's Literal Translation
If there were between us an umpire, He doth place his hand on us both.

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Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court. 33Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both. 34Let Him remove His rod from me, so that His terror will no longer frighten me.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 2:25
If a man sins against another man, God can intercede for him; but if a man sins against the LORD, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to their father, since the LORD intended to put them to death.

Job 9:19
If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?

Psalm 139:5
You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

Isaiah 1:18
"Come now, let us reason together," says the LORD. "Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool.


Treasury of Scripture

Neither is there any judge between us, that might lay his hand on us both.

is there

Job 9:19
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

1 Samuel 2:25
If one man sin against another, the judge shall judge him: but if a man sin against the LORD, who shall intreat for him? Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because the LORD would slay them.

Psalm 106:23
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them.

daysman.

1 Kings 3:16
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.

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Verse 33. - Neither is there any daysman betwixt us; literally 'judge or arbitrator called a "daysman," since he appoints the day on which the arbitration is to come off. The LXX. renders by μεσίτης, "mediator." That might lay his hand upon us bosh. Moderate between us, that is; keep us both in cheek; assert an authority to which we must both submit.

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Hebrew
Nor
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3863: If, would that!

is there
יֵשׁ־ (yêš-)
Adverb
Strong's 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

a mediator
מוֹכִ֑יחַ (mō·w·ḵî·aḥ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 3198: To be right, reciprocal, to argue, to decide, justify, convict

between us,
בֵּינֵ֣ינוּ (bê·nê·nū)
Preposition | first person common plural
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

to lay
יָשֵׁ֖ת (yā·šêṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect Jussive - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7896: To put, set

his hand
יָד֣וֹ (yā·ḏōw)
Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 3027: A hand

upon
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against

us both.
שְׁנֵֽינוּ׃ (šə·nê·nū)
Number - mdc | first person common plural
Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number)


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