17What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart on him?


In Context

14 Then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

15 So that my soul chooses strangling, and death rather than my life.

16 I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

17 What is man, that you should magnify him? and that you should set your heart on him?

18 And that you should visit him every morning, and try him every moment?

19 How long will you not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?

Job 7:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

7:17What [is] man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

7:17"What is man that you make so much of him, that you give him so much attention,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

7:17What is a man that thou shouldst magnify him? or why dost thou set thy heart upon him?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

7:17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17What is man, that thou makest much of him? and that thou settest thy heart upon him?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

7:17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him,

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17What is man, that thou shouldst magnify him? and that thou shouldst set thy heart upon him?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17What is man, that you should magnify him, that you should set your mind on him,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

7:17What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?