New Living Translation
Job 10:4
4Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them?
Job 10:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
- New International Version (NIV)Do you have eyes of flesh? Do you see as a mortal sees?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Have you eyes of flesh? Do you see as man sees?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?
Context of Job 10:4
2I will say to God, ‘Don’t simply condemn me— tell me the charge you are bringing against me. 3What do you gain by oppressing me? Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands, while smiling on the schemes of the wicked? Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? 5Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short 6that you must quickly probe for my guilt and search for my sin?
Read all of Job 10Job 10:4 word by word
הַעֵינֵ֣י בָשָׂ֣ר לָ֑ךְ אִם־כִּרְא֖וֹת אֱנ֣וֹשׁ תִּרְאֶֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 10:4
- Job 9:32“God is not a mortal like me, so I cannot argue with him or take him to trial.
- 1 Samuel 16:7But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
- Luke 16:15Then he said to them, “You like to appear righteous in public, but God knows your hearts. What this world honors is detestable in the sight of God.
- Revelation 1:14His head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow. And his eyes were like flames of fire.
Commentaries on Job 10:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Hast thou eyes of flesh! - Dost thou judge as man judges? Illustrated by the next clause, Seest thou as man seeth?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Hast 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.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-64-6. Dost Thou see as feebly as man? that is, with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job's friends? Is Thy time as short? Impossible! Yet one might think, from the rapid succession of Thy strokes, that Thou hadst no time to spare in overwhelming me.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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