Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Job 10:4
Job hazards the supposition that God has eyes like men and may see amiss, to account for His mistaken treatment of him.
Job hazards the supposition that God has eyes like men and may see amiss, to account for His mistaken treatment of him.
Verse Job 10:4. _HAST THOU EYES OF FLESH!_] Dost thou judge as _man_ judges? Illustrated by the next clause, _Seest thou as man seeth_?...
HAST THOU EYES OF FLESH? - Eyes like man. Dost thou look upon man with the same disposition to discern faults; the same uncharitableness and inclination to construe everything in the severest manner p...
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...
HAST.. SEEST. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. MAN. mortal man. Hebrew. _'enosh._ App-14....
HAST THOU EYES OF FLESH— Schultens observes, that _eyes of flesh_ are here used for _eyes of envy_ and _hatred;_ and that _to see,_ in the next clause, signifies _to envy._...
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 ?...
_HAST THOU EYES OF FLESH? OR SEEST THOU AS MAN SEETH?_ No JFB commentary on this verse....
10:4 man (d-10) _ 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....
הַ עֵינֵ֣י בָשָׂ֣ר לָ֑ךְ אִם ־כִּ רְאֹ֖ות
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...
Hast thou eyes of (g) flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? (g) Do you do this of ignorance....
_Seeth, judging only of the exterior. (Tirinus) (Ver. 6.)_...
(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...
HAST THOU EYES OF FLESH?.... God has eyes, but not fleshly ones; he has eyes of love, grace, and mercy, which are always upon his people for good, and are never withdrawn from them; and he has eyes of...
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth? Ver. 4. _Hast thou eyes of flesh?_] Which see but the surface of things, and not that neither in the dark. Hast thou not fiery eyes, Revelation 1:...
_Hast thou eyes of flesh?_ No. Eyes of flesh cannot see in the dark: but darkness hideth not from God. Eyes of flesh are but in one place at a time, and can see but a little way. But _the eyes of the...
Hast Thou eyes of flesh? Would God judge like a man, perceiving the objects only from the outside, judging only by the outward look of things? OR SEEST THOU AS MAN SEETH?...
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 of...
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...
"HAST THOU EYES OF FLESH?" The accusation that God is acting on. human level. "Job likened God to. man who looks harshly and intently for the faults of others, and to. man with. limited lifespan, who...
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...
OF FLESH, i.e. of a man, who is called _flesh_, as GENESIS 6:13 ISAIAH 40:6. SEEST THOU AS MAN SEETH? Man seeth outsides only, and judgeth by appearances, and is liable to many mistakes, and cannot se...
Job 10:4 eyes H5869 flesh H1320 see H7200 (H8799) man H582 sees H7200 (H8800) seest thou -...
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...
1 Samuel 16:7; Job 9:32; Luke 16:15; Revelation 1:14...
Eyes of faith — No. Eyes of flesh cannot see in the dark: but darkness hideth not from God. Eyes of flesh are but in one place at a time, and can see but a little way. But the eyes of the Lord are in...