Job speaks again; he God's power, for he sees Him as a Judge, and knew of none to stand between himself and that Judge (verse 33). To him it was indeed a problem, "How can man be just with God?" But since the atoning death of Christ, and the proclamation of free grace to lost sinners, the problem has ceased to be. The Epistle to the Romans tells the secret. (See chapter 3, and particularly verses 21 to 26, and chapter 5:1-12, the truth of which Job could not know).
But Job continues to justify himself, and he blames God (Chapter 9:16-18, Chapter 10:2-10, 11-17). The close of the book will give us the key to Job's feelings, and the thoughts of many another saint of God who does not see that God is for him, not against him.
Chapter 9:9 gives us the present names of well-known stars in the northern sky,—-Orion and the Pleiades. "Arcturus," it is now generally agreed is really the group of stars called the Great Bear, or the Dipper, ceaselessly sweeping around the North Star. Job knew that Satan is the present ruler of this world (verse 21); he allows the judges to decide unjustly.
Job knew, too, that he was not good-enough for God; the goodness he rather rested in, would not stand before God (verses 30-31), and he did not, and could not know that there is (now) one Mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time (1 Timothy 2:5, 65For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. (1 Timothy 2:5‑6)). Compare this verse with Job 9:3333Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both. (Job 9:33).
At the end of chapter 10, Job speaks of death, and we see how little he knew of the happy portion of the children of God. It was not that he feared death, but he was entirely ignorant of the eternally blessed place of the redeemed. God had not made it known then, and did not until His Son had died upon the cross, and ascended up where He was before.