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Job 10:4

Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Blasphemy;   God;   Philosophy;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Body;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Flesh;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Eye;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Do you have eyes of flesh,or do you see as a human sees?
Hebrew Names Version
Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
King James Version
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
English Standard Version
Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?
New Century Version
Do you have human eyes that see as we see?
New English Translation
"Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?
Amplified Bible
'Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as a man sees?
New American Standard Bible
'Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as mankind sees?
World English Bible
Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
Geneva Bible (1587)
Hast thou carnall eyes? or doest thou see as man seeth?
Legacy Standard Bible
Have You eyes of flesh?Or do You see as a mortal man sees?
Berean Standard Bible
Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
Contemporary English Version
Do you look at things the way we humans do?
Complete Jewish Bible
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?
Darby Translation
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Easy-to-Read Version
Do you have human eyes? Do you see things the way people do?
George Lamsa Translation
Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as a man sees?
Good News Translation
Do you see things as we do?
Lexham English Bible
Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as human beings see?
Literal Translation
Have You eyes of flesh; or do You see as a man sees?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Hast thou fle?shy eyes then, or doest thou loke as man loketh?
American Standard Version
Hast thou eyes of flesh? Or seest thou as man seeth?
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Hast Thou eyes of flesh? or seest Thou as man seeth?
King James Version (1611)
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Hast thou fleshy eyes? or doest thou loke as a man loketh?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Or dost thou see as a mortal sees? or wilt thou look as a man sees?
English Revised Version
Hast thou eyes of flesh, or seest thou as man seeth?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whethir fleischli iyen ben to thee, ethir, as a man seeth, also thou schalt se?
Update Bible Version
Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as common man sees?
Webster's Bible Translation
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
New King James Version
Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?
New Living Translation
Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them?
New Life Bible
Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as a man sees?
New Revised Standard
Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as humans see?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Eyes of flesh, hast thou? or, as a mortal seeth, seest thou?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Hast thou eyes of flesh: or, shalt thou see as man seeth?
Revised Standard Version
Hast thou eyes of flesh? Dost thou see as man sees?
Young's Literal Translation
Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Have You eyes of flesh? Or do You see as a man sees?

Contextual Overview

1 My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter outcry. 2 I will say to God, Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against me. 3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers? 4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees? 5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his, 6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing, 7 Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your hands?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

seest thou: Job 9:32, 1 Samuel 16:7, Luke 16:15, Revelation 1:14

Cross-References

Numbers 24:24
But ships will come from the direction of Kittim, troubling Asshur and troubling Eber, and like the others their fate will be destruction.
Isaiah 23:1
The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.
Isaiah 23:12
And he said, There is no more joy for you, O crushed virgin daughter of Zidon: up! go over to Kittim; even there you will have no rest.
Ezekiel 27:12
Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.
Ezekiel 27:25
Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.
Daniel 11:30
For those who go out from the west will come against him, and he will be in fear and will go back, full of wrath against the holy agreement; and he will do his pleasure: and he will go back and be united with those who have given up the holy agreement.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Hast thou eyes of flesh?.... God has eyes, but not fleshly ones; he has eyes of love, grace, and mercy, which are always upon his people for good, and are never withdrawn from them; and he has eyes of displeasure and wrath on sinful men, to destroy them; these are not made of flesh, or like the eyes of flesh and blood, or of men; fleshy eyes cannot see at any great distance, and only in one place at a time, and only one object after another; they cannot see in the dark, and what they are, and only outward objects; and in these they are sometimes deceived, and at length fail: but the eyes of God see all things, at the greatest distance; he looks down from heaven, and beholds all the children of men on earth, and all their actions; his eyes are in every place, beholding the evil and the good; he can see in the dark as well as in the light, the darkness and the light are both alike to him; he beholds not only outward actions and visible objects, but the hearts of men, and all that is in them; nor is he ever deceived, nor will his sight ever fail: though Job, perhaps, may mean carnal eyes; that is, evil ones, as especially envious ones are: "is thine eye evil?" Matthew 20:15; that is, envious; and it is as if Job should say, dost thou envy me my former prosperity and peace, that thou searchest so narrowly into my conduct to find iniquity in me, and take advantage against me?

or seest thou as man seeth? look with hatred and envy, as one man does upon another: so seemed the dispensations of God towards Job, as if he did, as he suggests.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hast thou eyes of flesh? - Eyes like man. Dost thou look upon man with the same disposition to discern faults; the same uncharitableness and inclination to construe everything in the severest manner possible, which characterizes man? Possibly Job may have reference here to the harsh judgment of his friends, and means to ask whether it could be possible for God to evince the same feelings in judging of him which they had done.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 10:4. Hast thou eyes of flesh! — Dost thou judge as man judges? Illustrated by the next clause, Seest thou as man seeth?


 
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