Verse 5
Job 10:5
Bible in Basic English
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Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,
Original Language Text
hebrew
הֲ/כִ/ימֵ֣י אֱנ֣וֹשׁ יָמֶ֑י/ךָ אִם שְׁ֝נוֹתֶ֗י/ךָ כִּ֣/ימֵי גָֽבֶר
English Translation
Are the days of a man your days, or your years like the days of a mighty one?
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Chapter 10 Context
1
My soul is tired of life; I will let my sad thoughts go free in words; my soul will make a bitter ou...
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I will say to God (Elohim), Do not put me down as a sinner; make clear to me what you have against m...
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What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the desig...
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4
Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?
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Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,
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That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,
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Though you see that I am not an evil-doer; and there is no one who is able to take a man out of your...
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Your hands made me, and I was formed by you, but then, changing your purpose, you gave me up to dest...
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O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?
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10
Was I not drained out like milk, becoming hard like cheese?
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11
By you I was clothed with skin and flesh, and joined together with bones and muscles.
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12
You have been kind to me, and your grace has been with me, and your care has kept my spirit safe.
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13
But you kept these things in the secret of your heart; I am certain this was in your thoughts:
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14
That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:
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15
That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be...
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16
And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your won...
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That you would send new witnesses against me, increasing your wrath against me, and letting loose ne...
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18
Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have take...
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19
And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to m...
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20
Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may hav...
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21
Before I go to the place from which I will not come back, to the land where all is dark and black,
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22
A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.
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