Job 10:5

World English Bible

Contextual Overview

¹ "My soul is weary of my life; I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. ² I will tell God, 'Do not condemn me, Show me why you contend with me. ³ Is it good to you that you should oppress, That you should despise the work of your hands, And smile on the counsel of the wicked? ⁴ Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees? ⁵ Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years, ⁶ That you inquire after my iniquity, And search after my sin? ⁷ Although you know that I am not wicked, There is no one who can deliver out of your hand.

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Psalms 90:2-4, Psalms 102:12, Psalms 102:24-27, Hebrews 1:12, 2 Peter 3:8

Cross-References

Genesis 10:1
Now this is the history of the generations of the sons of Noah and of Shem, Ham, and Japheth. Sons were born to them after the flood.

Genesis 10:9
He was a mighty hunter before Yahweh. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before Yahweh."

Genesis 10:20
These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their languages, in their lands, in their nations.

Genesis 10:25
To Eber were born two sons. The name of the one was Peleg, for in his days was the earth divided. His brother's name was Joktan.

Psalms 72:10
The kings of Tarshish and of the isles will bring tribute. The kings of Sheba and Seba shall offer gifts.

Isaiah 24:15
Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea!

Isaiah 40:15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.

Isaiah 41:5
The isles have seen, and fear; the ends of the earth tremble; they draw near, and come.

Isaiah 42:4
He will not fail nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the earth; and the isles shall wait for his law.

Isaiah 42:10
Sing to Yahweh a new song, and his praise from the end of the earth; you who go down to the sea, and all that is therein, the isles, and the inhabitants of it.

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.