Job 10:5
in Job 10Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
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ASV
Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man’s days,
KJV
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
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This verse in Job 10
Commentary
9 notes on this verseThe third defect of human knowledge is the result of the nature of time, both because his knowledge increases from day to day and also because he forgets those things which he knows through a long period of time, so it is necessary for him …
This site's exposition
Are Your days like those of a mortal
on Job 10:5-7
"Are Your days like those of a mortal" asks whether God investigates him the way a mortal judge must. Job closes on a claim he never withdraws, "though You know that I am not guilty," beside "there is no deliverance from Your hand".
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
"Do you judge things according to human views? May anything hide from your careful examination, as it is hidden from human beings? Are your years few, and do you ignore what was previous to your age? Do you need to make an enquiry and an …
The Medieval Church1 voice
Hast Thou eyes of flesh? or shalt Thou see as man seeth? Are Thy days as the days of man? Are Thy years as the time of man, that Thou inquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin? To know that I have done nothing ungodly.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
): " Are thy days as the days of man, few and evil? Do they roll on in succession, or are they subject to change, like the days of man? No, by no means." Men grow wiser by experience and more knowing by daily observation; with them truth is the daughter of time, and therefore they must take time for their searches, and, if one experiment fail, must try another.
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The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
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.
2 more voices on this verse
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
Dost Thou see as feebly as man? that is, with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job's friends? Yet one might think, from the rapid succession of Thy strokes, that Thou hadst no time to spare in overwhelming me.
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.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הֲכִימֵ֣י | hakhimei | ¿ like [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| אֱנ֣וֹשׁ | ʾenoosh | a person | H582 → | 566 times |
| יָמֶ֑יךָ | yameikha | [are] days your | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| אִם־ | ʾimosh- | or? | H518 → | 1069 times |
| שְׁ֝נוֹתֶ֗יךָ | shenoteikha | [are] years your | H8141 → | 877 times |
| כִּ֣ימֵי | kimei | like [the] days of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| גָֽבֶר׃ | gaver | a man | H1397 → | 65 times |
הֲכִימֵ֣י¿ like [the] days of
hakhimeiH3117 →2304 times
אֱנ֣וֹשׁa person
ʾenooshH582 →566 times
יָמֶ֑יךָ[are] days your
yameikhaH3117 →2304 times
אִם־or?
ʾimosh-H518 →1069 times
שְׁ֝נוֹתֶ֗יךָ[are] years your
shenoteikhaH8141 →877 times
כִּ֣ימֵיlike [the] days of
kimeiH3117 →2304 times
גָֽבֶר׃a man
gaverH1397 →65 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
2 Peter 3:8Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
it leads to
- Psalms 90:4
For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Psalms 90:4
Through
Hebrews 1:12You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”
it leads to
- Psalms 102:26–27
They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing You will change them, and they will be passed on.
- Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Psalms 102:26–27
Through
Psalms 102:12But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.
it leads to
- Psalms 135:13
Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your renown, O LORD, through all generations.
- Lamentations 5:19
You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.
- Exodus 3:15
God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My…
- Revelation 1:17–18
When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. But He placed His right hand on me and said, “Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,
- Psalms 135:13
About Job
This page draws on 10 works. Open the list of works
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Book of Job; Gregory the Dialogist, Morals on the Book of Job, Book IX; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible; Olympiodorus of Alexandria, COMMENTARY ON JOB 10:4-7 and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Job.