(28) I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent. (29) If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain? (30) If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean; (31) Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me. (32) For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment. (33) Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. (34) Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me: (35) Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.
Here Job not only dwells upon the same humbling subject, of man's uncleanness as he must appear before GOD, but he again, as in a former instance, sends out the fervent wish of his soul, for a mediator, a days-man. No doubt the spirit of CHRIST, which was in the early prophets, and taught them to speak by faith of the sufferings of CHRIST, and the glory that should follow, (1 Peter 1:11.) taught also holy men of old to be looking for the same LORD JESUS as this precious Mediator, this Almighty Daysman, who alone was found competent to lay his hand upon both parties, GOD and man, and make up the deadly breach which sin had made. Oh! lovely evidence this of the faith of Job in a coming Mediator! Reader! do not overlook it and remember that Job's complaint that there was none, was in effect a prayer that one might be found. Hence, when JESUS came, the cry of those that knew him was, We have found him of whom Moses and the prophets did write. John 1:45.