“Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man’s days,”
Job questions whether God's days are like the days of man and his years like the days of man, suggesting that if God experiences time as humans do, then God might understand the urgency and pain of the human moment. The finite human lifespan should create sympathy for the finite human suffering. Yet again, the appeal seems to fall on deaf ears.
Church Fathers on Job 10:5
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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