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Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man`s years,
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A Question of Urgency
Job is asking a rhetorical question to express his confusion. Commentators agree that Job knows God is eternal and not limited like a mortal. His question is a cry of anguish: 'God, since you are not short on time like a human, why are you afflicting me with such urgency, as if you must rush to find fault before it's too late?'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Are your days as the days of man? - Does your life pass on like that of man? Do you expect soon to die, that you pursue me in this …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
[Are] thy days as the days of man ? &c.] No, they are not: not so few; the days of the years of man's life in common…
Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will not charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered fr…
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13th Century
Catholic
Job earlier proposed that both the innocent and the wicked are assailed by trials in this world. He touched upon one possible reason for the punish…
