“Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?”
Job questions whether God has eyes of flesh or whether he sees as a man sees, implying that if God sees as humans see, then God should understand human suffering. The question about God's mode of perception becomes a request for recognition of the similarity between divine and human understanding. Yet even if God understands, the oppression continues.
Church Fathers on Job 10:4
My soul is weary of my life. Now whensoever the present life has once begun to grow tasteless, and the love of the Creator to become sweet, the soul inflames itself against self, that it may accuse self for the sins, wherein it formerly vindicated itself, being ignorant of the things above. Whence he yet further adds with propriety, I will let my speech go against myself. He as it were employs his speech in behalf of himself, who tries to defend by excuses the evil things…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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