Adam Clarke's Bible Commentary Verse 5. Are thy days as the days of man ] wna enosh, wretched, miserable man. Thy years as man's days; rbg gaber, the strong man. Thou art not short-lived, like man in his present imperfect state; nor can the years of the long-lived patriarchs be compared with thine. The difference of the phraseology in the original justifies this view of the subject. Man in his low estate cannot be likened unto thee; nor can he in his greatest excellence, though made in thy own image and likeness, be compared to thee.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - Job, being weary of his life, resolves to complain, but he will no charge God with unrighteousness. Here is a prayer that he might be delivered from the sting of his afflictions, which is sin. When God afflicts us, he contends with us; when he contends with us, there is always a reason; and it is desirable to know the reason, that we ma repent of and forsake the sin for which God has a controversy with us But when, like Job, we speak in the bitterness of our souls, we increase guilt and vexation. Let us harbour no hard thoughts of God; we shall hereafter see there was no cause for them. Job is sure that God does not discover things, nor judge of them, as men do; therefore he thinks it strange that God continues him under affliction, as if he must take time to inquire into his sin.
Original Hebrew הכימי3117 אנושׁ582 ימיך3117 אם518 שׁנותיך8141 כימי3117 גבר׃1397
