Job 7:18

And that you visit ¹  them every morning, and try ²  them every moment? ³ 

biblegateway Job 7:18

that you examine him every morning and test him every moment?

biblegateway Job 7:18

That You examine him every morning And try him every moment?

biblegateway Job 7:18

For you examine us every morning and test us every moment.

biblegateway Job 7:18

That you check up on them every morning, looking in on them to see how they're doing?

SABDAweb Job 7:18

And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

bibleoremus Job 7:18

visit them every morning, test them every moment?

biblegateway Job 7:18

That You should visit him every morning, And test him every moment?

biblegateway Job 7:18

And that you visit ¹  them every morning, and try ²  them every moment? ³ 

¹ tn The verb פָּקַד (paqad) is a very common one in the Bible; while it is frequently translated “visit,” the “visit” is never comparable to a social call. When God “visits” people it always means a divine intervention for blessing or cursing – but the visit always changes the destiny of the one visited. Here Job is amazed that God Almighty would be so involved in the life of mere human beings.

² tn Now the verb “to test” is introduced and gives further explanation to the purpose of the “visit” in the parallel line (see the same parallelism in Ps 17:3). The verb בָּחַן (bakhan) has to do with passing things through the fire or the crucible to purify the metal (see Job 23:10; Zech 13:3); metaphorically it means “to examine carefully” and “to purify by testing.”

³ sn The amazing thing is the regularity of the testing. Job is at first amazed that God would visit him; but even more is he amazed that God is testing him every moment. The employment of a chiasm with the two temporal adverbial phrases as the central elements emphasizes the regularity.