Do you have eyes of flesh? Or do you see as man sees?
Parallel translations
- KJV Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
- BSB Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees?
- NKJV Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as man sees?
- NASB ‘Do You have eyes of flesh? Or do You see as mankind sees?
- NLT Are your eyes like those of a human? Do you see things only as people see them?
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Quick answer
Job asks whether God sees with mere human eyes, limited and superficial. He wonders if God misjudges him as men do.
Overview
Job questions whether God perceives only outwardly, as fallible humans do. The implied answer is no, for God sees the heart truly and completely (1 Samuel 16:7). Job's words unintentionally affirm a comfort: the God who searches us also fully knows our frame and is not deceived as men are.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 1 Sam 16:7But Yahweh said to Samuel, “Don’t look on his face, or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for I don’t see as man sees. For man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart.”
- Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
- Luke 16:15He said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
- Rev 1:14His head and his hair were white as white wool, like snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire.
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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