Job 7:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 2:6 : 6 But a certain writer has given his witness, saying, What is man, that you keep him in mind? what is the son of man, that you take him into account?
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?
  • Ps 144:3 : 3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?
  • 1 Sam 24:14 : 14 There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.
  • Job 7:12 : 12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again, 15 All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 8:4-5
    2 verses
    85%

    4 What is man, that you keep him in mind? the son of man, that you take him into account?

    5 For you have made him only a little lower than the gods, crowning him with glory and honour.

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

    4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Job 7:18
    83%

    18 And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

  • Heb 2:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    6 But a certain writer has given his witness, saying, What is man, that you keep him in mind? what is the son of man, that you take him into account?

    7 You made him a little lower than the angels; you gave him a crown of glory and honour, and made him ruler over all the works of your hands:

  • Job 15:13-14
    2 verses
    78%

    13 So that you are turning your spirit against God, and letting such words go out of your mouth?

    14 What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?

  • Job 4:17
    77%

    17 May a man be upright before God? or a man be clean before his Maker?

  • Eccl 6:11
    77%

    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

  • Job 10:3-6
    4 verses
    76%

    3 What profit is it to you to be cruel, to give up the work of your hands, looking kindly on the design of evil-doers?

    4 Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

    5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

    6 That you take note of my sin, searching after my wrongdoing,

  • Isa 2:22
    76%

    22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

  • Job 25:6
    75%

    6 How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!

  • Job 14:3
    75%

    3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • Job 7:1
    75%

    1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

  • Ps 89:47
    75%

    47 See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • Job 36:24
    75%

    24 See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.

  • Ps 39:5
    74%

    5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Job 7:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

    21 And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Job 7:16
    74%

    16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

  • Job 18:3
    74%

    3 Why do we seem as beasts in your eyes, and as completely without knowledge?

  • Job 6:11
    73%

    11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

  • Job 11:7
    73%

    7 Are you able to take God's measure, to make discovery of the limits of the Ruler of all?

  • Job 7:12
    73%

    12 Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

  • 2 Sam 7:19
    72%

    19 And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!

  • Job 15:7
    72%

    7 Were you the first man to come into the world? or did you come into being before the hills?

  • Job 31:2
    72%

    2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • Job 40:8
    72%

    8 Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

  • Ps 90:3
    72%

    3 You send man back to his dust; and say, Go back, you children of men.

  • Job 31:14
    72%

    14 What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?

  • Job 35:6
    72%

    6 If you have done wrong, is he any the worse for it? and if your sins are great in number, what is it to him?

  • Job 13:9
    72%

    9 Will it be good for you to be searched out by him, or have you the thought that he may be guided into error like a man?

  • Job 21:4
    72%

    4 As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?

  • Job 33:12-13
    2 verses
    72%

    12 Truly, in saying this you are wrong; for God is greater than man.

    13 Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?

  • Ps 4:2
    71%

    2 O you sons of men, how long will you go on turning my glory into shame? how long will you give your love to foolish things, going after what is false? (Selah.)

  • Job 34:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 Who put the earth into his care, or made him responsible for the world?

    14 If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,

  • Job 9:32
    71%

    32 For he is not a man as I am, that I might give him an answer, that we might come together before a judge.

  • Job 20:4
    71%

    4 Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Job 21:15
    71%

    15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

  • Eccl 7:13
    71%

    13 Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?

  • Eccl 3:18
    71%

    18 I said in my heart, It is because of the sons of men, so that God may put them to the test and that they may see themselves as beasts.

  • Ps 39:11
    71%

    11 By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Ps 52:1
    71%

    1 <To the chief music-maker. Maschil. Of David. When Doeg the Edomite came to Saul saying, David has come to the house of Ahimelech.> Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?