Job 10:5
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
Job 10:5 in other translations
| BSB | Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man, |
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| WEB | Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years, |
| ASV | Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man’s days, |
| YLT | As the days of man are Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man? |
| DARBY | Are thy days as the days of a mortal? are thy years as a man's days, |
| BBE | Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his, |
| Webster | Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days, |
What does Job 10:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 10:4-6
4-6. 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.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 10:1-7
Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. When God afflicts us, he contends with us; when he contends with us, there is always a reason; and it is desirable to know the reason, that we may repent of and forsake the sin for which God has a controversy with us. But…
Job 10:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 10:5
- 2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- Psalms 90:2-4
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God. Thou turnest man to destruction; and sayest, Return, ye children of men. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
- Psalms 102:24-27
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations. Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands. They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed: But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
- Hebrews 1:12
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.
- Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.
- Psalms 102:12
But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
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Context
- Job 10:4
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
- Job 10:5
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
- Job 10:6
That thou enquirest after mine iniquity, and searchest after my sin?
Job 10:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¿Son tus días como los días del hombre, ó tus años como los tiempos humanos, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Tes jours sont-ils comme les jours d’un mortel, ou tes années, comme les jours de l’homme, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sind deine Tage wie die Tage eines Menschen, oder deine Jahre wie die Tage eines Mannes, |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Numquid sicut dies hominis dies tui, et anni tui sicut humana sunt tempora, |