Bible Commentaries
Job 9

Verses 32-33

Job 9:32-33

I. This desire of Job's is to be studied, not merely as the experience of an individual under peculiar circumstances, but as a human experience, the germs of which are in man as man; in other words, Job's craving for a mediator is the craving of humanity.

II. The demand for a mediator is backed and urged by two great interlinked facts: sin and suffering.

III. Job's longing is literally and fully met. To the cry which comes from that far-off wreck of earthly happiness, "He is not a man as I am," we can answer today, "He is a Man." To the words, "There is no daysman to lay his hand upon us both," we answer, "There is one God and one Mediator between God and man, the Man Christ Jesus."

M. R. Vincent, God and Bread, p. 265.

References: Job 9:20 . Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. vii., p. 350. Job 9:33 . Ibid., vol. xi., No. 661. Job 9-10 S. Cox, Expositor, 1st series, vol. v., pp. 36 and 113; Ibid., Commentary on Job, p. 118. Job 10:2 . Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. v., No. 283; Ibid., Morning by Morning, p. 49. Job 10:8 . H. Melvill, Penny Pulpit, No. 2342; Expositor, 3rd series, vol. iv., p. 290.