Job 10:5

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Pet 3:8 : 8 Now, dear friends, do not let this one thing escape your notice, that a single day is like a thousand years with the Lord and a thousand years are like a single day.
  • Job 36:26 : 26 The Work and Wisdom of God“Yes, God is great– beyond our knowledge! The number of his years is unsearchable.
  • Ps 90:2-4 : 2 Even before the mountains came into existence, or you brought the world into being, you were the eternal God. 3 You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!” 4 Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.
  • Ps 102:12 : 12 But you, O LORD, rule forever, and your reputation endures.
  • Ps 102:24-27 : 24 I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations. 25 In earlier times you established the earth; the skies are your handiwork. 26 They will perish, but you will endure. They will wear out like a garment; like clothes you will remove them and they will disappear. 27 But you remain; your years do not come to an end.
  • Heb 1:12 : 12 and like a robe you will fold them up and like a garment they will be changed, but you are the same and your years will never run out.”

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  • Job 10:3-4
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    3Is it good for you to oppress, to despise the work of your hands, while you smile on the schemes of the wicked?

    4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

  • Job 10:6
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    6that you must search out my iniquity, and inquire about my sin,

  • Ps 39:4-5
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    4“O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

  • Job 7:1
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    1The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

  • Job 7:17-18
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    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

    18And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment?

  • Job 14:5
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    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?

    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 20:4
    74%

    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

  • Ps 102:24
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    24I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

  • Job 14:3
    74%

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Ps 77:5
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    5I thought about the days of old, about ancient times.

  • Ps 89:47
    73%

    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

  • Ps 90:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3You make mankind return to the dust, and say,“Return, O people!”

    4Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.

  • Job 15:10-14
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    73%

    10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

    11Are God’s consolations too trivial for you; or a word spoken in gentleness to you?

    12Why has your heart carried you away, and why do your eyes flash,

    13when you turn your rage against God and allow such words to escape from your mouth?

    14What is man that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?

  • Job 38:21
    73%

    21You know, for you were born before them; and the number of your days is great!

  • Ps 90:9-12
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    9Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

    10The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.

    11Who can really fathom the intensity of your anger? Your raging fury causes people to fear you.

    12So teach us to consider our mortality, so that we might live wisely.

  • Job 18:3
    72%

    3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

  • Job 15:7
    72%

    7“Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?

  • Job 8:9
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    9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Ps 103:15
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    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

  • Job 22:5
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    5Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity?

  • Job 17:11
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    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

  • Job 35:5
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    5Gaze at the heavens and see; consider the clouds, which are higher than you!

  • Ps 8:4
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    4Of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should pay attention to them?

  • Job 4:17
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    17“Is a mortal man righteous before God? Or a man pure before his Creator?

  • Job 14:14
    71%

    14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

  • Job 29:4
    71%

    4just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

  • Job 32:7
    71%

    7I said to myself,‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’

  • Job 6:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11What is my strength, that I should wait? and what is my end, that I should prolong my life?

    12Is my strength like that of stones? or is my flesh made of bronze?

  • Prov 9:11
    71%

    11For because of me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life.

  • Ps 4:2
    71%

    2You men, how long will you try to turn my honor into shame? How long will you love what is worthless and search for what is deceptive?(Selah)

  • Job 40:8
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    8Would you indeed annul my justice? Would you declare me guilty so that you might be right?

  • Ps 31:10
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    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • Job 14:1
    71%

    1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

  • Job 11:17
    70%

    17And life will be brighter than the noonday; though there be darkness, it will be like the morning.

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

    8So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many– all that is about to come is obscure.