Job 10:5

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

Are Your days like the days of a human? Are Your years like those of a strong man?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הֲכִימֵ֣י אֱנ֣וֹשׁ יָמֶ֑יךָ אִם־שְׁ֝נוֹתֶ֗יךָ כִּ֣ימֵי גָֽבֶר׃

Transliteration

?hăkîmê ʾĕnôš yāmêkā if šənôtêkā like kîmê gāber

Grammar Details

• *hăkîmê*: interrogative particle + preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - are like days of
• *ʾĕnôš*: noun, masculine singular - man/mankind
• *yāmêkā*: noun, masculine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your days
• *šənôtêkā*: noun, feminine plural construct with 2nd masculine singular suffix - your years
• *kîmê*: preposition + noun, masculine plural construct - like days of
• *gāber*: noun, masculine singular - man/strong man

Word Meanings

• *ʾĕnôš*: man/mortal man/mankind
• *gāber*: man/strong man/mighty one

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  Are Your days as the days of man? Are Your years as man's days,

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Are thy days{H3117} as the days{H3117} of man,{H582} Or thy years{H8141} as man's{H1397} days,{H3117}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Are thy days{H3117} as the days{H3117} of man{H582}? are thy years{H8141} as man's{H1397} days{H3117},

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Are thy dayes as the dayes of man, and thy yeares as mans yeares?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Are thy dayes as mans dayes? Or thy yeres, as the time of man,

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Or are thy dayes as the dayes of man? and thy yeres as mans yeres?

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  [Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years,

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  As the days of man `are' Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Are thy days as the days of man, Or thy years as man's days,

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

• World English Bible (2000)

  Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 But do not let this one thing escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day.
• Job 36:26 : 26 Behold, God is great, and we do not comprehend Him; the number of His years is unsearchable.
• Ps 90:2-4 : 2 Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. 3 You turn humankind back to dust, saying, 'Return, O children of man.' 4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it passes, or like a watch in the night.
• Ps 102:12 : 12 My days are like a shadow that lengthens, and I wither away like grass.
• Ps 102:24-27 : 24 He has afflicted my strength in the way; he has shortened my days. 25 I say, 'My God, do not take me away in the midst of my days, your years endure through all generations.' 26 Long ago you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. 27 They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them, and they will be discarded.
• Heb 1:12 : 12 'You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed. But You remain the same, and Your years will never end.'