Job 7:17

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

What `is' man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 2:6 : 6 and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, `What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?
  • Ps 8:4 : 4 What `is' man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?
  • Ps 144:3 : 3 Jehovah, what `is' man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?
  • 1 Sam 24:14 : 14 `After whom hath the king of Israel come out? after whom art thou pursuing? -- after a dead dog! after one flea!
  • Job 7:12 : 12 A sea-`monster' am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?
  • Job 34:14-15 : 14 If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth. 15 Expire doth all flesh together, And man to dust returneth.

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  • Ps 8:4-5
    2 verses
    85%

    4 What `is' man that Thou rememberest him? The son of man that Thou inspectest him?

    5 And causest him to lack a little of Godhead, And with honour and majesty compassest him.

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    84%

    3 Jehovah, what `is' man that Thou knowest him? Son of man, that Thou esteemest him?

    4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.

  • 18 And inspectest him in the mornings, In the evenings dost try him?

  • Heb 2:6-7
    2 verses
    81%

    6 and one in a certain place did testify fully, saying, `What is man, that Thou art mindful of him, or a son of man, that Thou dost look after him?

    7 Thou didst make him some little less than messengers, with glory and honour Thou didst crown him, and didst set him over the works of Thy hands,

  • Job 15:13-14
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    13 For thou turnest against God thy spirit? And hast brought out words from thy mouth:

    14 What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman?

  • 17 `Is mortal man than God more righteous? Than his Maker is a man cleaner?

  • 11 For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

  • Job 10:3-6
    4 verses
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    3 Is it good for Thee that Thou dost oppress? That Thou despisest the labour of Thy hands, And on the counsel of the wicked hast shone?

    4 Eyes of flesh hast Thou? As man seeth -- seest Thou?

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

    6 That Thou inquirest for mine iniquity, And for my sin seekest?

  • 22 Cease for you from man, Whose breath `is' in his nostrils, For -- in what is he esteemed?

  • 6 How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!

  • 3 Also -- on this Thou hast opened Thine eyes, And dost bring me into judgment with Thee.

  • 1 Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

  • 47 Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

  • 24 Remember that thou magnify His work That men have beheld.

  • 5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.

  • Job 7:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20 I have sinned, what do I to Thee, O watcher of man? Why hast Thou set me for a mark to Thee, And I am for a burden to myself -- and what?

    21 Thou dost not take away my transgression, And cause to pass away mine iniquity, Because now, for dust I lie down: And Thou hast sought me -- and I am not!

  • 16 I have wasted away -- not to the age do I live. Cease from me, for my days `are' vanity.

  • 3 Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

  • 11 What `is' my power that I should hope? And what mine end That I should prolong my life?

  • 7 By searching dost thou find out God? Unto perfection find out the Mighty One?

  • 12 A sea-`monster' am I, or a dragon, That thou settest over me a guard?

  • 19 And yet this `is' little in Thine eyes, Lord Jehovah, and Thou dost speak also concerning the house of Thy servant afar off; and this `is' the law of the Man, Lord Jehovah.

  • 7 The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

  • 2 And what `is' the portion of God from above? And the inheritance of the Mighty from the heights?

  • 8 Dost thou also make void My judgment? Dost thou condemn Me, That thou mayest be righteous?

  • 3 Thou turnest man unto a bruised thing, And sayest, Turn back, ye sons of men.

  • 14 Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

  • 6 If thou hast sinned, what dost thou against Him? And thy transgressions have been multiplied, What dost thou to Him?

  • 9 Is `it' good that He doth search you, If, as one mocketh at a man, ye mock at Him?

  • 4 I -- to man `is' my complaint? and if `so', wherefore May not my temper become short?

  • Job 33:12-13
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    72%

    12 Lo, `in' this thou hast not been righteous, I answer thee, that greater is God than man.

    13 Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When `for' all His matters He answereth not?

  • 71%

    2 Sons of men! till when `is' my glory for shame? Ye love a vain thing, ye seek a lie. Selah.

  • Job 34:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 Who hath inspected for Himself the earth? And who hath placed all the habitable world?

    14 If He doth set on him His heart, His spirit and his breath unto Him He gathereth.

  • 32 But if a man like myself -- I answer him, We come together into judgment.

  • 4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

  • 15 What `is' the Mighty One that we serve Him? And what do we profit when we meet with Him?'

  • 13 See the work of God, For who is able to make straight that which He made crooked?

  • 18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are' beasts.

  • 11 With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity `is' every man. Selah.

  • 1 To the Overseer. -- An instruction, by David, in the coming in of Doeg the Edomite, and he declareth to Saul, and saith to him, `David came in unto the house of Ahimelech.' What, boasteth thou in evil, O mighty one? The kindness of God `is' all the day.