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Job 10:5

Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

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

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hypocrisy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Are your days like those of a human,or your years like those of a man,
Hebrew Names Version
Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years,
King James Version
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
English Standard Version
Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years,
New Century Version
Are your days like the days of humans, and your years like our years?
New English Translation
Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,
Amplified Bible
'Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Are Your years as man's years,
New American Standard Bible
'Are Your days like the days of a mortal, Or Your years like a man's year,
World English Bible
Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
Legacy Standard Bible
Are Your days as the days of a mortal man,Or Your years as man's years,
Berean Standard Bible
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
Contemporary English Version
Is your life as short as ours?
Complete Jewish Bible
Are your days like the days of mortals? Are your years like human years,
Darby Translation
Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,
Easy-to-Read Version
Is your life as short as ours? Is your life as short as a man's life?
George Lamsa Translation
Are thy days as the days of men? Are thy years as mans days?
Good News Translation
Is your life as short as ours?
Lexham English Bible
Are your days as the days of human beings, or your years as the days of man,
Literal Translation
Are Your days as the days of man? Or Your years like the days of man,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Are thy dayes as the dayes of man, and thy yeares as mans yeares?
American Standard Version
Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Are Thy days as the days of man, or Thy years as a man's days,
King James Version (1611)
Are thy dayes as the dayes of man? are thy yeeres as mans dayes,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Or are thy dayes as the dayes of man? and thy yeres as mans yeres?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Or is thy life human, or thy years the years of a man,
English Revised Version
Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Whether thi daies ben as the daies of man, and `thi yeeris ben as mannus tymes;
Update Bible Version
Are your days as the days of common man, Or your years as the days of [noble] man,
Webster's Bible Translation
[Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,
New King James Version
Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
New Living Translation
Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short
New Life Bible
Are Your days as the days of man, or Your years as man's years,
New Revised Standard
Are your days like the days of mortals, or your years like human years,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
As the days of a mortal, are thy days? or, thy years, as the days of a man?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:
Revised Standard Version
Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,
Young's Literal Translation
As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man's years,

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

Psalms 90:2-4, Psalms 102:12, Psalms 102:24-27, Hebrews 1:12, 2 Peter 3:8

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
Genesis 10:9
He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.
Genesis 10:20
All these, with their different families, languages, lands, and nations, are the offspring of Ham.
Genesis 10:25
And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.
Psalms 72:10
Let the kings of Tarshish and of the islands come back with offerings; let the kings of Sheba and Seba give of their stores.
Isaiah 24:15
Give praise to the Lord in the east, to the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the sea-lands.
Isaiah 40:15
See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.
Isaiah 41:5
The sea-lands saw it, and were in fear; the ends of the earth were shaking: they came near.
Isaiah 42:4
His light will not be put out, and he will not be crushed, till he has given the knowledge of the true God to the earth, and the sea-lands will be waiting for his teaching.
Isaiah 42:10
Make a new song to the Lord, and let his praise be sounded from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and everything in it, the sea-lands and their people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[Are] thy days as the days of man?.... No, they are not: not so few; the days of the years of man's life in common are threescore years and ten, Psalms 90:10; but a thousand years with the Lord are but as one day, 2 Peter 3:8; his days are days not of time, but of eternity: nor so mutable, or he so mutable in them; man is of one mind today, and of another tomorrow; but the Lord is in one mind one day as another; he is the Lord that changes not, Malachi 3:6; immutable in his nature, purposes, promises, and affections: but Job suggests as if his dispensations towards him showed the contrary; one day smiling upon him, and heaping his favours on him, and the next frowning on him, and stripping him of all: but this was a wrong way of judging; for, though God may change the dispensations of his providence towards men, and particularly his own people, his nature changes not, nor does he change his will, his purposes, and designs, nor his love and affection:

[are] thy years as man's days? as few as they, or fail like them? no, he is the same, and his years fail not, and has the same good will to his people in adverse as well as in prosperous dispensations of his providence. Some understand all this in such sense, in connection with what follows, as if Job had observed, that since God was omniscient, and knew and saw all persons and things, his eyes not being like men's eyes, eyes of flesh; and since he was eternal, and wanted not for time, there was no need for him to take such methods as he did with him, through afflictive providences, to find out his sin; since, if he was guilty, it was at once known to him; nor need he be in such haste to do it, since his time was not short, as it is with an envious and ill natured man, who is for losing no time to find out and take an advantage of him he bears an ill will unto.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Are thy days as the days of man - Does thy life pass on like that of man? Dost thou expect soon to die, that thou dost pursue me in this manner, searching out my sins, and afflicting me as if there were no time to lose? The idea is, that God seemed to press this matter as if he were soon to cease to exist, and as if there were no time to spare in accomplishing it. His strokes were unintermitted, as if it were necessary that the work should be done soon, and as if no respite could be given for a full and fair development of the real character of the sufferer. The whole passage Job 10:4-7 expresses the settled conviction of Job that God could not resemble man; Man was short lived, fickle, blind; he was incapable, from the brevity of his existence, and from his imperfections, of judging correctly of the character of others. But it could not be so with God. He was eternal. He knew the heart. He saw everything as it was. Why, then, Job asks with deep feeling, did he deal with him as if he were influenced by the methods of judgment which were inseparable from the condition of imperfect and dying man?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Job 10:5. Are thy days as the days of man — אנוש enosh, wretched, miserable man. Thy years as man's days; גבר gaber, the strong man. Thou art not short-lived, like man in his present imperfect state; nor can the years of the long-lived patriarchs be compared with thine. The difference of the phraseology in the original justifies this view of the subject. Man in his low estate cannot be likened unto thee; nor can he in his greatest excellence, though made in thy own image and likeness, be compared to thee.


 
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