that You attend to him every morning, and test him every moment?
Parallel translations
- WEB that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
- KJV And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
- NKJV That You should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?
- NASB That You examine him every morning And put him to the test every moment?
- NLT For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.
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Quick answer
Job complains that God examines and tests him every morning and moment without relief. He feels under constant, exhausting inspection.
Overview
Continuing from the previous verse, Job portrays God's attention as ceaseless testing he cannot bear. What would elsewhere be reassurance of God's nearness feels to the suffering Job like inescapable pressure. The book later shows that God's testing of Job, though painful, was not arbitrary but served to vindicate genuine faith.
Cross-references & the web
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- Jer 9:7Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
- 1 Pet 1:7so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Isa 38:12–13My dwelling has been picked up and removed from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver; He cuts me off from the loom; from day until night You make an end of me.
- Isa 26:14The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- Exod 20:5You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Job 14:3Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
- Deut 8:16He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.
- Gen 22:1Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
- Zech 13:9This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
- Dan 12:10Many will be purified, made spotless, and refined, but the wicked will continue to act wickedly. None of the wicked will understand, but the wise will understand.
- Exod 32:34Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”
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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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