Job 9:32
Good News Translation
If God were human, I could answer him; we could go to court to decide our quarrel.

New Revised Standard Version
For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him, that we should come to trial together.

Contemporary English Version
God isn't a mere human like me. I can't put him on trial.

New American Bible
For he is not a man like myself, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.

not a man

Job 33:12 Now this is the thing in which thou art not justified: I will answer thee, that God is greater than man.

Job 35:5-7 Look up to heaven and see, and behold the sky, that it is higher than thee. . . .

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor is the son of man, that he should be changed. Hath he said then, and will he not do? hath he spoken, and will he not fulfil?

1 Samuel 16:7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

Ecclesiastes 6:10 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.

Isaiah 45:9 Woe to him that gainsayeth his maker, a sherd of the earthen pots: shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it: What art thou making, and thy work is without hands?

Jeremiah 49:19 Behold one shall come up as a lion from the swelling of the Jordan, against the strong and beautiful: for I will make him run suddenly upon her: and who shall be the chosen one whom I may appoint over her? for who is like to me? and who shall abide me? and who is that shepherd that can withstand my countenance?

Romans 9:20 O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

1 John 3:20 For if our heart reprehend us, God is greater than our heart and knoweth all things.

we should

Job 13:18-23 If I shall be judged, I know that I shall be found just. . . .

Job 23:3-7 Who will grant me that I might know and find him, and come even to his throne? . . .

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Context
Job: How Can I Argue with God?
31Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me. 32For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment.33There is none that may be able to reprove both, and to put his hand between both.…
Cross References
Romans 9:20
O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it: Why hast thou made me thus?

Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one for a thousand.

Job 9:14
What am I then, that I should answer him, and have words with him?

Job 9:31
Yet thou shalt plunge me in filth, and my garments shall abhor me.

Ecclesiastes 6:10
He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is a man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.

Job 9:31
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