Job 10:5
New International Version
Are your days like those of a mortal or your years like those of a strong man,

New Living Translation
Is your lifetime only as long as ours? Is your life so short

English Standard Version
Are your days as the days of man, or your years as a man’s years,

Berean Standard Bible
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

King James Bible
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

New King James Version
Are Your days like the days of a mortal man? Are Your years like the days of a mighty man,

New American Standard Bible
‘Are Your days like the days of a mortal, Or Your years like a man’s year,

NASB 1995
‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Or Your years as man’s years,

NASB 1977
‘Are Thy days as the days of a mortal, Or Thy years as man’s years,

Legacy Standard Bible
Are Your days as the days of a mortal man, Or Your years as man’s years,

Amplified Bible
‘Are Your days as the days of a mortal, Are Your years as man’s years,

Christian Standard Bible
Are your days like those of a human, or your years like those of a man,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Are Your days like those of a human, or Your years like those of a man,

American Standard Version
Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,

Contemporary English Version
Is your life as short as ours?

English Revised Version
Are thy days as the days of man, or thy years as man's days,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Are your days like a mortal's days? Are your years like a human's years?

Good News Translation
Is your life as short as ours?

International Standard Version
Can you live only as long as a human being? Or live the years of a mortal man?

Majority Standard Bible
Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man,

NET Bible
Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

New Heart English Bible
Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

Webster's Bible Translation
Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

World English Bible
Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man’s years,
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
[Are] Your days as the days of man? Your years as the days of a man?

Young's Literal Translation
As the days of man are Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?

Smith's Literal Translation
Are thy days as man's days? or thy years as the days of man?
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Are thy days as the days of man, and are thy years as the times of men:

Catholic Public Domain Version
Are your days just like the days of man, and are your years as the times of humans,

New American Bible
Are your days like the days of a mortal, and are your years like a human lifetime,

New Revised Standard Version
Are your days like the days of mortals, or your years like human years,
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Are thy days as the days of men? Are thy years as man's days?

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Or are your days as the days of man, or your years as the days of a man
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Are Thy days as the days of man, Or Thy years as a man's days,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Or is thy life human, or thy years the years of a man,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Job's Plea to God
4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as man sees? 5Are Your days like those of a mortal, or Your years like those of a man, 6that You should seek my iniquity and search out my sin—…

Cross References
Psalm 90:4
For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

2 Peter 3:8
Beloved, do not let this one thing escape your notice: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.

Psalm 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Isaiah 40:22
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth; its dwellers are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

Psalm 102:11-12
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass. / But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.

Psalm 144:4
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Isaiah 55:8-9
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the LORD. / “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so My ways are higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.

Psalm 90:10
The length of our days is seventy years—or eighty if we are strong—yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Ecclesiastes 3:20
All go to one place; all come from dust, and all return to dust.

1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Isaiah 46:4
Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.

Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field; / when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Hebrews 1:10-12
And: “In the beginning, O Lord, You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands. / They will perish, but You remain; they will all wear out like a garment. / You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”


Treasury of Scripture

Are your days as the days of man? are your years as man's days,

Psalm 90:2-4
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God…

Psalm 102:12,24-27
But thou, O LORD, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations…

Hebrews 1:12
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

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Are Your days
In this phrase, Job is addressing God directly, questioning the nature of God's existence. The Hebrew word for "days" is "yom," which can refer to a literal day or a period of time. Job is grappling with the concept of divine eternity versus human temporality. In a conservative Christian perspective, this highlights the eternal nature of God, who exists outside the constraints of time. This is a reminder of God's omnipresence and omniscience, contrasting with human limitations.

like those of a mortal
The term "mortal" refers to human beings, emphasizing their finite nature. The Hebrew word "enosh" is often used to denote mankind in its frailty and mortality. Job is expressing his frustration and confusion, questioning if God experiences time and life as humans do. This reflects the human struggle to comprehend God's eternal nature and His understanding of human suffering. It serves as a reminder of the vast difference between the Creator and the created, urging believers to trust in God's eternal wisdom.

or Your years
Here, Job continues to question the nature of God's existence by comparing divine "years" to human years. The Hebrew word "shaneh" is used for "years," which in human terms, signifies the passage of time marked by seasons and life events. Job's rhetorical question underscores the timelessness of God, who is not bound by the years that define human life. This invites believers to reflect on the eternal perspective of God, who sees the beginning and the end simultaneously.

like those of a man
The word "man" in Hebrew is "geber," often used to denote a strong or mighty man, yet still mortal and limited. Job is questioning whether God experiences life as a human does, with the same limitations and lifespan. This highlights the distinction between God's infinite nature and human finitude. From a conservative Christian viewpoint, this serves as a reminder of the incarnation of Christ, who, while fully God, took on human form to bridge the gap between the divine and the mortal, offering hope and redemption.

Verse 5. - Are thy days as man's days? In short-lived man, shortsightedness and prejudice are excusable, but not in one whose days are unlike man's days - whose "years endure throughout all generations" (Is. 102:24). Such a one ought to be above all human infirmity. Or thy years as man's days? We should have expected "as man's years." But it marks the disparity more strongly to say, "Are thy years not greater in number even than man's [literally, 'a strong man's'] days?"

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Are Your days
הֲכִימֵ֣י (hă·ḵî·mê)
Article, Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

like those
יָמֶ֑יךָ (yā·me·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

of a [mortal],
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 582: Man, mankind

or
אִם־ (’i·mōš-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

Your years
שְׁ֝נוֹתֶ֗יךָ (nō·w·ṯe·ḵā)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 8141: A year

like those
כִּ֣ימֵי (kî·mê)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

of a man,
גָֽבֶר׃ (ḡā·ḇer)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1397: A valiant man, warrior, a person simply


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