Job 7:17
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Insignificance of Humans
7:17“What is mankind59 that you make so much of them,60
and that you pay attention61 to them?
Footnotes
- 59 The verse is a rhetorical question; it is intended to mean that man is too little for God to be making so much over him in all this.
- 60 The Piel verb is a factitive meaning “to magnify.” The English word “magnify” might not be the best translation here, for God, according to Job, is focusing inordinately on him. It means to magnify in thought, appreciate, think highly of. God, Job argues, is making too much of mankind by devoting so much bad attention on them.
- 61 The expression “set your heart on” means “concentrate your mind on” or “pay attention to.”
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In other versions
ESVEnglish Standard Version
What is man, that you make so much of him,
and that you set your heart on him,
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
“What is mankind that you make so much of them,
that you give them so much attention,
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
What is a mere human, that you think so highly of him
and pay so much attention to him?
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NLTNew Living Translation
“What are people, that you should make so much of us,
that you should think of us so often?
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
“What is a human being that you make him great
and that you fix your mind on him,
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KJV 1900King James Version
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him?
And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
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