And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Parallel translations
- WEB that you should visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
- BSB that You attend to him every morning, and test 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 thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, I will melt them, and try them; for how shall I do for the daughter of my people?
- 1 Pet 1:7That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
- Isa 38:12–13Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd’s tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Isa 26:14They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.
- Exod 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
- Job 14:3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
- Deut 8:16Who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not, that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end;
- Gen 22:1And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
- Zech 13:9And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God.
- Dan 12:10Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.
- Exod 32:34Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.
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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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