New Living Translation
Job 10:5
5Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short
Job 10:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
- New International Version (NIV)Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man,
- English Standard Version (ESV)Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man's years,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
Context of Job 10:5
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? 4Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them? Is 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? 7Although you know I am not guilty, no one can rescue me from your hands.
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הֲכִימֵ֣י אֱנ֣וֹשׁ יָמֶ֑יךָ אִם־שְׁ֝נוֹתֶ֗יךָ כִּ֣ימֵי גָֽבֶר׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 10:5
- Psalms 90:2Before the mountains were born, before you gave birth to the earth and the world, from beginning to end, you are God.
- Psalms 102:12But you, O Lord, will sit on your throne forever. Your fame will endure to every generation.
- Hebrews 1:12You will fold them up like a cloak and discard them like old clothing. But you are always the same; you will live forever.”
- 2 Peter 3:8But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
Commentaries on Job 10:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Are 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…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Are 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…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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