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Good News Translation

Job 7:18

You inspect them every morning and test them every minute.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Humility;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Temptation, Test;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Longsuffering;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Day of Judgment;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You inspect him every morning,and put him to the test every moment.
Hebrew Names Version
That you should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?
King James Version
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
English Standard Version
visit him every morning and test him every moment?
New Century Version
You examine them every morning and test them every moment.
New English Translation
And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment?
Amplified Bible
"And that You examine him every morning And try and test him every moment?
New American Standard Bible
That You examine him every morning And put him to the test every moment?
World English Bible
That you should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?
Geneva Bible (1587)
And doest visite him euery morning, and tryest him euery moment?
Legacy Standard Bible
That You examine him every morningAnd test him every moment?
Berean Standard Bible
that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
Contemporary English Version
Why do you test us from sunrise to sunset?
Complete Jewish Bible
Why examine them every morning and test them every moment?
Darby Translation
And that thou visitest him every morning, triest him every moment?
Easy-to-Read Version
Why do you visit them every morning and test them at every moment?
George Lamsa Translation
And that thou shouldst visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Lexham English Bible
so that you visit him every morning, you test him every moment?
Literal Translation
and visit him every morning, trying him every moment?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Thou takest diligent care for him, and sodely doest thou trye him.
American Standard Version
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?
Bible in Basic English
And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Thou visitest him early and euery day, euery moment doest thou trie him.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And that Thou shouldest remember him every morning, and try him every moment?
King James Version (1611)
And that thou shouldest visite him euery morning, and trie him euery moment?
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Wilt thou visit him till the morning, and judge him till the time of rest?
English Revised Version
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thou visitist hym eerly, and sudeynli thou preuest hym.
Update Bible Version
And that you should visit him every morning, And try him every moment?
Webster's Bible Translation
And [that] thou shouldst visit him every morning, [and] try him every moment?
New King James Version
That You should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?
New Living Translation
For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.
New Life Bible
that You look at him every morning, and test him all the time?
New Revised Standard
visit them every morning, test them every moment?
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
That thou shouldst inspect him morning by morning, moment by moment, shouldst test him?
Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.
Revised Standard Version
dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
Young's Literal Translation
And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?
New American Standard Bible (1995)
That You examine him every morning And try him every moment?

Contextual Overview

17 Why are people so important to you? Why pay attention to what they do? 18 You inspect them every morning and test them every minute. 19 Won't you look away long enough for me to swallow my spit? 20 Are you harmed by my sin, you jailer? Why use me for your target practice? Am I so great a burden to you? 21 Can't you ever forgive my sin? Can't you pardon the wrong I do? Soon I will be in my grave, and I'll be gone when you look for me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

visit: Exodus 20:5, Exodus 32:34, Isaiah 26:14, Isaiah 38:12, Isaiah 38:13

try: Genesis 22:1, Deuteronomy 8:16, Jeremiah 9:7, Daniel 12:10, Zechariah 13:9, 1 Peter 1:7

Reciprocal: Job 7:21 - in the morning Job 14:3 - And dost Psalms 73:14 - For all Hebrews 2:6 - What

Cross-References

Exodus 14:28
The water returned and covered the chariots, the drivers, and all the Egyptian army that had followed the Israelites into the sea; not one of them was left.
Job 22:16
Even before their time had come, they were washed away by a flood.
Psalms 69:15
Don't let the flood come over me; don't let me drown in the depths or sink into the grave.
Psalms 104:26
The ships sail on it, and in it plays Leviathan, that sea monster which you made.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And [that] thou shouldest visit him every morning,.... That is, "daily", continually, as Aben Ezra interprets it; either in a way of love, grace, and mercy; so God has visited men, by raising up and sending his Son to be a Redeemer of them; the Son of God has visited them, as the dayspring from on high, by his incarnation and appearance in this world; see Luke 1:68; and the Lord visits them, by calling them by his grace, see Acts 15:14; by communing and conversing with them in a free and friendly manner; by helping right early, and by renewing his mercies to them every morning, all which is matter of admiration: or else the word may be taken in a different sense, as it sometimes is, either for punishing man for sin, as in Exodus 20:5; or for chastising the Lord's people, which is a visiting them, though in a fatherly way, and in love, and which is often and frequently done, even every morning, see Psalms 89:32; and so the sense agrees with the former, though by some given with this difference thus, "what is man, that thou shouldest magnify him?" or make him great both in things temporal and spiritual, as he had made Job in the time of his prosperity, which he may have respect unto; having been the greatest man in all the east, with respect to both characters, whereby it was plain he had interest in the love and affections of the heart of God; and "yet, notwithstanding, nevertheless, thou visitest him" t, with afflictions and chastisements continually; which may seem strange, and look like a contradiction, that thou shouldest:

[and] try him every moment? by afflictive providences; in this way the Lord often tries the faith and patience, the fear and love, the hope and humility of his people, and all other graces, whereby they appear and shine the brighter, which was Job's case, see Job 23:10; and which he doubtless had in view in all he had said, and more particularly expostulates about in the following verses.

t ותפקדנו "et tamen, nihilominus visitas eum", Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And that thou shouldest visit him? - That is, for the purpose of inflicting pain. This language Job intends undoubtedly to be applicable to himself, and he asks with impatience why God should take a pleasure in visiting with suffering each returning day a creature like him?

Every morning - Why is there no intermission even for a day? Why does not God allow one morning, or one moment, to pass without inflicting pain on a creature so feeble and so frail?

And try him - Or, prove him; to wit, by afflictions.

Every moment - Constantly; without intermission.


 
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