Job 7:17 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁷ What are humans, that you make so much of them, that you set your mind on them,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? And that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ What is man that You should magnify him and think him important? And that You should set Your mind upon him? [Ps. 8:4.]

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

¹⁷ What are human beings, that you exalt them, that you take note of them,

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ What is man, that you should praise him? Or why do you place your heart near him?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 7:17 Cross References

Job 14:3

Do you fix your eyes on such a one? Do you bring me into judgment with you?

Job 22:2

“Can a mortal be of use to God? Can even the wisest be of service to him?

Job 25:6

how much less a mortal, who is a maggot, and a human being, who is a worm!”

Job 7:12

Am I the Sea or the Dragon that you set a guard over me?

Psalm 144:3

O Lord, what are humans that you regard them, or mortals that you think of them?

Psalm 8:4

what are humans that you are mindful of them, mortals that you care for them?

Psalm 8:5

Yet you have made them a little lower than God and crowned them with glory and honor.

Hebrews 2:6

But someone has testified somewhere, “What are humans that you are mindful of them or mortals that you care for them?

1 Samuel 24:14

Against whom has the king of Israel come out? Whom do you pursue? A dead dog? A single flea?