Job 10:5 Meaning and Explanation
“Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job contrasts God's eternal life with the brief span of mortal years.
What Does Job 10:5 Mean?
This verse flows directly into the next; together they ask whether God, who lives forever, is somehow hurried like a man who must investigate quickly before his short life ends. Job is reasoning that an eternal God has no need to hound a frail creature for his faults.
The thought meant as a complaint becomes a quiet truth: God is not bound by time as we are. He is patient where we are pressed, unhurried where we are anxious. The everlasting One stoops to deal with creatures of dust, and His eternity is not a threat but the ground of long-suffering mercy that waits for the wandering and the weary.
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What does Job 10:5 mean?
Job contrasts God's eternal life with the brief span of mortal years.