“But Job, you are wrong about this.\par And I will prove you are wrong.\par Why? Because God knows more\par than any person. {\cf2\super [70]} \par
Job 9:32 - Easy To Read Version God is not a man like me.\par That is why I can’t answer him.\par We can’t meet each other in court.\par Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, And we should come together in judgment. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For [God] is not a [mere] man, as I am, that I should answer Him, that we should come together in court. American Standard Version (1901) For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, That we should come together in judgment. Common English Bible God is not a man like me—someone I could answer— so that we could come together in court. Catholic Public Domain Version For even I would not answer a man who were like myself, nor one who could be heard with me equally in judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For I shall not answer a man that is like myself: nor one that may be heard with me equally in judgment. |
“But Job, you are wrong about this.\par And I will prove you are wrong.\par Why? Because God knows more\par than any person. {\cf2\super [70]} \par
So I can’t argue with God.\par I wouldn’t know what to say to him.\par
I can’t defeat God.\par God is too powerful!\par I can’t take God to court\par and force him to be fair to me.\par Who could force God to come to court?\par
A person can’t argue with God!\par God could ask 1,000 questions and\par no person could answer even one!\par
God will still push me into the slime pit. {\cf2\super [21]} \par Then even my clothes will hate me.\par
Don’t judge me, your servant.\par Never, in all my life, could I ever be judged innocent.\par
“Look at these people! They are arguing with the One who made them. Look at them argue with me! They are like pieces of clay from a broken pot. A man uses soft, wet clay to make a pot. And the clay does not ask, ‘Man, what are you doing?’ Things that are made don’t have the power to question the one who makes them. \{People are like this clay.\}
“Sometimes a lion will come from the thick bushes near the Jordan River. And that lion will go into the fields where people put their sheep and cattle. I am like that lion. I will go to Edom. And I will scare those people. I will make them run away. None of their young men will stop me. No one is like me. No one will challenge me. None of their shepherds (leaders) will stand up against me.”
God is not a man; he will not lie. God is not a human being; his decisions will not change. If the Lord says he will do something, then he will do it. If the Lord makes a promise, then he will do the thing he promised.
\{Don’t ask that.\} You are only people. And people have no right to question God. A clay jar does not question the man that made it. The jar does not say, “Why did you make me like this?”
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Eliab is tall and handsome. But don’t think about things like that. God does not look at the things people see. People look only at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at his heart. Eliab is not the right man.”