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31 yet you will plunge me into filth,
    and my own clothes will abhor me.
32 For he is not a mortal, as I am, that I might answer him,
    that we should come to trial together.
33 There is no umpire[a] between us,
    who might lay his hand on us both.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 9:33 Another reading is Would that there were an umpire

31 you would plunge me into a slime pit(A)
    so that even my clothes would detest me.(B)

32 “He is not a mere mortal(C) like me that I might answer him,(D)
    that we might confront each other in court.(E)
33 If only there were someone to mediate between us,(F)
    someone to bring us together,(G)

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