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Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?
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God's Intense Gaze
Job expresses a profound sense of being under God's intense and critical watch. Commentators explain this isn't about God's loving care but a feeling of being scrutinized for every flaw. Job questions why the Almighty would focus so intently on someone so frail and fleeting.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one? - Is one so weak, so frail, so short-lived, worthy of the constant vigilance of the…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And do you open your eyes on such a one So frail and feeble, so short lived and sorrowful, so soon and easily cut do…
Job enlarges upon the condition of man, addressing himself also to God. Every man of Adam's fallen race is short-lived. All his show of beauty, hap…
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13th Century
Catholic
Since this last point is particularly valuable for investigating the truth, he insists on clarifying it further. He now applies what he had said ab…
