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Job 10:5
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Are your days like those of a human,or your years like those of a man,
Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years,
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,
Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years,
Are your days like the days of humans, and your years like our years?
Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,
'Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Are Your years as man's years,
'Are Your days like the days of a mortal, Or Your years like a man's year,
Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years,
Are thy dayes as mans dayes? or thy yeres, as the time of man,
Are Your days as the days of a mortal man,Or Your years as man's years,
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
Is your life as short as ours?
Are your days like the days of mortals? Are your years like human years,
Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days,
Is your life as short as ours? Is your life as short as a man's life?
Are thy days as the days of men? Are thy years as mans days?
Is your life as short as ours?
Are your days as the days of human beings, or your years as the days of man,
Are Your days as the days of man? Or Your years like the days of man,
Are thy dayes as the dayes of man, and thy yeares as mans yeares?
Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,
Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,
Are Thy days as the days of man, or Thy years as a man's days,
Are thy dayes as the dayes of man? are thy yeeres as mans dayes,
Or are thy dayes as the dayes of man? and thy yeres as mans yeres?
Or is thy life human, or thy years the years of a man,
Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,
Whether thi daies ben as the daies of man, and `thi yeeris ben as mannus tymes;
Are your days as the days of common man, Or your years as the days of [noble] man,
[Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,
Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
Are Your days as the days of man, or Your years as man's years,
Are your days like the days of mortals, or your years like human years,
As the days of a mortal, are thy days? or, thy years, as the days of a man?
Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:
Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's years,
As the days of man [are] Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?
'Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man's years,
Contextual Overview
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
This is the account of the families of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the three sons of Noah. Many children were born to them after the great flood.
Since he was the greatest hunter in the world, his name became proverbial. People would say, "This man is like Nimrod, the greatest hunter in the world."
These were the descendants of Ham, identified by clan, language, territory, and national identity.
Eber had two sons. The first was named Peleg (which means "division"), for during his lifetime the people of the world were divided into different language groups. His brother's name was Joktan.
The western kings of Tarshish and other distant lands will bring him tribute. The eastern kings of Sheba and Seba will bring him gifts.
In eastern lands, give glory to the Lord . In the lands beyond the sea, praise the name of the Lord , the God of Israel.
No, for all the nations of the world are but a drop in the bucket. They are nothing more than dust on the scales. He picks up the whole earth as though it were a grain of sand.
The lands beyond the sea watch in fear. Remote lands tremble and mobilize for war.
He will not falter or lose heart until justice prevails throughout the earth. Even distant lands beyond the sea will wait for his instruction."
Sing a new song to the Lord ! Sing his praises from the ends of the earth! Sing, all you who sail the seas, all you who live in distant coastlands.
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.
