Job 9:33

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לֹ֣א יֵשׁ־בֵּינֵ֣ינוּ מוֹכִ֑יחַ יָשֵׁ֖ת יָד֣וֹ עַל־שְׁנֵֽינוּ׃

Transliteration

lōʾ yēš-bênênû môkîaḥ yāšēt yādô ʿal-šənênû

Grammar Details

• *lōʾ*: negative particle - not
• *yēš-bênênû*: existential particle + preposition + 1st person plural suffix - there is between us
• *môkîaḥ*: hiphil participle masculine singular - an arbiter
• *yāšēt*: qal imperfect 3rd masculine singular jussive - who might lay
• *yādô*: feminine singular noun + 3rd masculine singular suffix - his hand
• *ʿal-šənênû*: preposition + numeral + 1st person plural suffix - upon us both

Word Meanings

• *yēš*: there is, there exists
• *bênênû*: between us, among us
• *môkîaḥ*: arbiter, mediator, judge
• *yāšēt*: to place, set, put
• *yādô*: hand, power
• *šənênû*: both of us, the two of us

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 2:25 : 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.
• Job 9:19 : 19 If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?
• Ps 106:23 : 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.
• 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
• 1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him. 17 And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house. 19 And this woman's child died in the night; because she overlaid it. 20 And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thine handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. 21 And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead: but when I had considered it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, which I did bear. 22 And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king. 23 Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living. 24 And the king said, Bring me a sword. And they brought a sword before the king. 25 And the king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. 26 Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her bowels yearned upon her son, and she said, O my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it. 27 Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof. 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment which the king had judged; and they feared the king: for they saw that the wisdom of God was in him, to do judgment.