Job 9:30-33

Job Replies: There Is No Arbiter

³⁰ If I wash myself with snow
and _n cleanse my hands with lye,
³¹ yet you will plunge me into a pit,
and my own clothes will _o abhor me.
³² For he is not a man, as I am, that I might answer him,
that we should _p come to trial together.
³³ _q There is no ₁ arbiter between us,
who might lay his hand on us both.

1. Cross References
   Isaiah 1:25
   I will turn my hand against you and will smelt away your dross as with lye and remove all your alloy.
   Jeremiah 2:22
   Though you wash yourself with lye and use much soap, the stain of your guilt is still before me, declares the Lord God.
   Job 22:30
   He delivers even the one who is not innocent, who will be delivered through the cleanness of your hands.
   
2. Cross References
   Job 19:19
   All my intimate friends abhor me, and those whom I loved have turned against me.
   Job 30:10
   They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
   
3. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 6:10
   Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
   Romans 9:20
   But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, "Why have you made me like this?
   
4. Cross References
   Job 9:19
   If it is a contest of strength, behold, he is mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
   1 Samuel 2:25
   If someone sins against a man, God will mediate for him, but if someone sins against the Lord, who can intercede for him?" But they would not listen to the voice of their father, for it was the will of the Lord to put them to death.
   Job 16:21
   That he would argue the case of a man with God, as a son of man does with his neighbor.