Job 7:18 Meaning and Explanation
“And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Job questions why God examines him constantly, morning by morning and moment by moment.
What Does Job 7:18 Mean?
Continuing the question from the previous verse, Job describes God's attention as ceaseless: a visiting every morning, a testing every moment. He feels under unrelenting scrutiny.
Job experiences this constancy as a strain, yet the same words describe a God who is never absent, never distracted from His own. What feels in sorrow like relentless examination is, rightly seen, the unfailing nearness of a faithful God. The believer learns to read God's daily visitation not as a threat but as the steady presence of the One whose mercies are new every morning and who never leaves us to ourselves.
Job 7:18 in the Original Language
paqad (פָּקַד), 'visit' -- to attend to or examine, with care or with reckoning.
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What does Job 7:18 mean?
Job questions why God examines him constantly, morning by morning and moment by moment.