“ Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, ”
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 the...
[Are] thy days as the (h) days of man? [are] thy years as man's days, (h) Are you inconstant and changeable as the times, today a friend, tomorrow an enemy?
Job's tone becomes sharper. He accuses God of having created him only to torment him. What profit is there to God in destroying the work that has cost Him so much pains? ( Job 10:3 )? Is God short-si...
man's . a strong man's. Hebrew. geber. App-14.
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, 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 n...
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, Hast thou eyes of flesh? ... Are thy days as the days of man? ... That thou inquirest after mine iniquity? Dost thou see as feeb...
Job's Second Speech (concluded) 1-7. Job seeks the reason of his trial, and protests against God's treatment as inconsistent with the natural relations between Creator and created, and with God's...
X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN Job 9:1-35 ; Job 10:1-22 Job SPEAKS IT is with an infinitely sad restatement of what God has been made to appear to him by Bildad's speech that Job begins his reply...
Soul Bitterness Job 10:1-22 In this chapter Job accuses God of persecuting His own workmanship, Job 20:3 ; of pursuing him with repeated strokes, as if he had not time enough to wait between t...
Notwithstanding all this, Job appealed to God. Turning from his answer to Bildad, he poured out his agony as in the presence of the Most High. It was by no means a hopeful appeal, but it was an appea...
(3) Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked? (4) Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man...
[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 a...
Job 10:5 [Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days, Ver. 5. Are thy days as the days of man? ] Art thou mortal and short lived, as sorry man is, that thou proceedest in th...
Are thy days as the days of man? Man's time is short and uncertain, and therefore he must improve it, and diligently search out the crimes of malefactors, lest by death he lose the opportunity of d...
AN ATTEMPT TO REASON WITH GOD (vv.1-22) Since there was no mediator, Job in this chapter (from verse 2 on) directs all of his words directly to God, reasoning with Him as regards why God should...
Job's Reply to Bildad. B. C. 1520. 1 My soul is weary of my life; I will leave my compla...
Man's time is short and uncertain, and therefore he must improve his time whilst he hath it, and diligently search out the crimes of malefactors, and punish them whilst he may, lest by death he lose...
JOB’S REPLY TO BILDAD—CONTINUED His speech takes the form rather of an expostulation with God in regard to his afflictions. The vehemence of his spirit reaches its height in this chapter. Does n...
Job 10:1 . I will leave my complaint upon myself. These words seem to imply, that he would bear his complaint in silence; but it immediately follows, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul. O...
Is it good unto Thee that Thou shouldest oppress? Job’s mistaken views of his sufferings I. As inconsistent with all his ideas of his Maker. 1. As inconsistent with His goodness. “Is it good...
EXPOSITION Job 10:1-18 Having answered Bildad, Job proceeds to pour out the bitterness of his soul in a pathetic complaint, which he addresses directly to God. There is not much that is nov...
Job's Prayer for Enlightenment. Job now launches forth into a pitiful complaint, addressing God Himself on the great severity with which He was treating him, although He knew that he was innocent...
2 Peter 3:8 ; Hebrews 1:12 ; Psalms 102:12 ; Psalms 102:24-27 ; Psalms 90:2-4
Man's — Man's time is short and uncertain, and therefore he must improve it, and diligently search out the crimes of malefactors, lest by death he lose the opportunity of doing justice: but thou ar...