Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
Parallel translations
- WEB Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
- KJV And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
- NKJV And do You open Your eyes on such a one, And bring me to judgment with Yourself?
- NASB “You also open Your eyes on him And bring him into judgment with Yourself.
- NLT Must you keep an eye on such a frail creature and demand an accounting from me?
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Quick answer
Job wonders why God watches and judges so frail a creature. He marvels that God attends so closely to weak humanity.
Overview
Job asks whether God really fixes His eyes on such a fleeting being and brings him into judgment. He questions why the eternal God should hold a short-lived mortal to such scrutiny. The very wonder anticipates the psalmist's question, 'What is man that you are mindful of him?' answered fully in God's gracious care crowned in Christ.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 144:3O LORD, what is man, that You regard him, the son of man that You think of him?
- Ps 143:2Do not bring Your servant into judgment, for no one alive is righteous before You.
- Ps 8:4what is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?
- Job 13:25Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?
- Job 9:19–20If it is a matter of strength, He is indeed mighty! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon Him?
- Job 9:32For He is not a man like me, that I can answer Him, that we can take each other to court.
- Job 13:27You put my feet in the stocks and stand watch over all my paths; You set a limit for the soles of my feet.
- Job 7:17–18What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,
- Rom 3:19Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
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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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