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Job 10:5

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10:5Are your days like the days of a mortal,

or your years like the years15 of a mortal,

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Footnotes

  1. 15 The Hebrew has repeated here “like the days of,” but some scholars think that this was an accidental replacement of what should be here, namely, “like the years of.” D. J. A. Clines notes that such repetition is not uncommon in Job, but suggests that the change should be made for English style even if the text is not emended (Job [], ). This has been followed in the present translation. The question Job asks concerns the mode of life and not just the length of it (see Job 7:1). Humans spend their days and years watching each other and defending themselves. But there is also the implication that if God is so limited like humans he may not uncover Job’s sins before he dies.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Are your days as the days of man,

or your years as a man’s years,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Are your days like those of a mortal

or your years like those of a strong man,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Are your days like those of a human,

or your years like those of a man,

NLTNew Living Translation

Is your lifetime only as long as ours?

Is your life so short

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Are your days as the days of human beings,

or your years as the days of man,

KJV 1900King James Version

Are thy days as the days of man?

Are thy years as man’s days,