Verse 5
Job 10:5
New Living Translation
5
Is your lifetime only as long as ours?<br>Is your life so short<br>
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?
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 10 Context
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“I am disgusted with my life.<br>Let me complain freely.<br>My bitter soul must complain.<br>
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I will say to God (Elohim), ‘Don’t simply condemn me —<br>tell me the charge you are bringing agains...
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What do you gain by oppressing me?<br>Why do you reject me, the work of your own hands,<br>while smi...
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Are your eyes like those of a human?<br>Do you see things only as people see them?<br>
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Is your lifetime only as long as ours?<br>Is your life so short<br>
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that you must quickly probe for my guilt<br>and search for my sin?<br>
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Although you know I am not guilty,<br>no one can rescue me from your hands.<br>
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“‘You formed me with your hands; you made me,<br>yet now you completely destroy me.<br>
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Remember that you made me from dust —<br>will you turn me back to dust so soon?<br>
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10
You guided my conception<br>and formed me in the womb.<br>
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You clothed me with skin and flesh,<br>and you knit my bones and sinews together.<br>
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You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love.<br>My life was preserved by your care.<br>
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“‘Yet your real motive —<br>your true intent —<br>
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was to watch me, and if I sinned,<br>you would not forgive my guilt.<br>
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If I am guilty, too bad for me;<br>and even if I’m innocent, I can’t hold my head high,<br>because I...
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And if I hold my head high, you hunt me like a lion<br>and display your awesome power against me.<br...
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Again and again you witness against me.<br>You pour out your growing anger on me<br>and bring fresh...
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“‘Why, then, did you deliver me from my mother’s womb?<br>Why didn’t you let me die at birth?<br>
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It would be as though I had never existed,<br>going directly from the womb to the grave.<br>
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I have only a few days left, so leave me alone,<br>that I may have a moment of comfort<br>
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before I leave — never to return —<br>for the land of darkness and utter gloom.<br>
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It is a land as dark as midnight,<br>a land of gloom and confusion,<br>where even the light is dark...
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