Job 9:33

Webster's Bible (1833)

There is no umpire between us, That might lay his hand on 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, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Yahweh, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they didn't listen to the voice of their father, because Yahweh was minded to kill them.
• Job 9:19 : 19 If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, 'Who,' says he, 'will summon me?'
• Ps 106:23 : 23 Therefore he said that he would destroy them, Had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, To turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn't destroy them.
• 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 My little children, I write these things to you so that you may not sin. If anyone sins, we have a Counselor{Greek Parakleton: Counselor, Helper, Intercessor, Advocate, and Comfortor.} with the Father, Jesus Christ, the righteous. 2 And he is the atoning sacrifice{"atoning sacrifice" is from the Greek "hilasmos," an appeasing, propitiating, or the means of appeasement or propitiation-- the sacrifice that turns away God's wrath because of our sin.} for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 Kgs 3:16-28 : 16 Then there came two women who were prostitutes, to the king, and stood before him. 17 The one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house. 18 It happened the third day after 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 This woman's child died in the night, because she lay on it. 20 She arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while your handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead child in my bosom. 21 When I rose in the morning to give my child suck, behold, it was dead; but when I had looked at it in the morning, behold, it was not my son, whom I bore. 22 The other woman said, No; but the living is my son, and the dead is your son. This said, No; but the dead is your son, and the living is my son. Thus they spoke before the king. 23 Then said the king, The one says, This is my son who lives, and your son is the dead: and the other says, No; but your son is the dead, and my son is the living. 24 The king said, Get me a sword. They brought a sword before the king. 25 The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other. 26 Then spoke the woman whose the living child was to the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no way kill it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor yours; divide it. 27 Then the king answered, Give her the living child, and in no way kill it: she is the mother of it. 28 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 justice.