Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
Parallel translations
- KJV Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,
- BSB Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,
- NKJV Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,
- NASB ‘Are Your days like the days of a mortal, Or Your years like a man’s year,
- NLT Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short
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Quick answer
Job asks whether God's days and years are short like a mortal's, pressed for time to investigate. He probes why God seems to hunt his sin so urgently.
Overview
Job contrasts God's eternity with human brevity, puzzled that the everlasting God would press an investigation as if running out of time. The implied truth is that God is not limited or hurried like men. His eternal patience and perfect knowledge mean His dealings are never rushed or mistaken (Psalm 90:2-4; 2 Peter 3:8-9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- 2 Pet 3:8But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
- Ps 90:2–4Before the mountains were born, before you had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God.
- Heb 1:12You will roll them up like a mantle, and they will be changed; but you are the same. Your years will not fail.”
- Ps 102:24–27I said, “My God, don’t take me away in the middle of my days. Your years are throughout all generations.
- Ps 102:12But you, Yahweh, will remain forever; your renown endures to all generations.
- Job 36:26Behold, God is great, and we don’t know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
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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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