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Job 10:5
Are Thy days as the days of man, of a mortal, changeable creature? Are Thy years as man's days,
Are Thy days as the days of man, of a mortal, changeable creature? Are Thy years as man's days,
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 i...
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 we...
CHAPTER S 9-10 JOB ANSWERS BILDAD _ 1. The supremacy and power of God (Job 9:1)_ 2. How then can Job meet Him? (Job 9:11) 3. He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked (Job 9:22) 4. Confession of we...
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-sight...
MAN'S. a strong man's. Hebrew. _geber._ App-14....
Then he asks if God's life be brief like human life, that by the inquisition of chastisements He seeks to bring Job's sin to light, lest His victim should outlive Him, and hurries on his punishment le...
5. HE WOULD ASK THE ALMIGHTY THE REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN HIS TREATMENT OF HIS CREATURE. (JOB 10:1-22) TEXT 10:1-22 10 My soul is weary of my life; I will give free coarse to my complaint; I will s...
_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 feebly as ?...
10:5 mortal? (d-9) _ Enosh_ , as chs. 4.17; 5.17; 13.9; &c....
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 kno...
JOB, A SERVANT OF GOD Job _KEITH SIMONS_ Words in boxes (except for words in brackets) are from the Bible. This commentary has been through Advanced Checking. CHAPTER 10 JOB PRAYS TO GOD JOB PR...
Job tried to work out another explanation. Perhaps God had a plan that people could not see....
הֲ כִ ימֵ֣י אֱנֹ֣ושׁ יָמֶ֑יךָ אִם ־שְׁ֝נֹותֶ֗
X. THE THOUGHT OF A DAYSMAN JOB 9:1; Job 10:1 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. Yes, yes; it...
SOUL BITTERNESS Job 10:1 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 them, but mu...
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 appeal...
[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?...
_Days, sometimes denote judgments, 1 Corinthians iv. 3. Is God liable to change, like men, or does he stand in need of time to examine them, or fear lest they should escape? (Calmet) --- Is it necessa...
(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 s...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 4 THROUGH 31. As to the friends of Job, they do not call for any extended remarks. They urge the doctrine that God's earthly government is a full measure and...
[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 bu...
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 this s...
_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 do...
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 deal...
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. W...
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 t...
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CONTENTS: Job's answer to Bildad continued. CHARACTERS: God, Job, Bildad. CONCLUSION: Sometimes, when in affliction, the believer is tempted to think that God's providences and His justice cannot be...
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._ Oste...
_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 unto...
_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 not...
EXPOSITION JOB 10:1 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 novel in the lon...
Now Job goes on in the tenth chapter. He said, My soul is weary of my life (Job 10:1); He goes right back into his misery. He looks for the answer, but it isn't there; it isn't to be found. And so I...
2 Peter 3:8; Hebrews 1:12; Psalms 102:12; Psalms 102:24; Psalms 90:2
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 art e...