Job 7:17
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
*What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him?
Original 1611 marginTranslation notes and cross-references are kept distinct.
- *Cross-referencePsal. 8.4. and 144.3. heb. 2.6.
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- Hebrews 2:6Rank 1 from verse 17
- Psalms 8:4Rank 2 from verse 17
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- Job 34:14–15Rank 4 from verse 17
14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;
15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.
14*If he set his heart †vpon man, if he gather vnto himselfe his spirit and his breath;
15*All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turne againe vnto dust.
- 1 Samuel 24:14Rank 6 from verse 17
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Job 7:17
1. A human being or person. 2. Mankind collectively. 3. A male person.
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The singular second-person subject pronoun, meaning you when directly addressing one person, being, or individually treated addressee.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
To make great in esteem; to praise, exalt, or declare great.
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1. To put or place a person or thing in a position, relation, or condition; when passive, to be so placed, fixed, or adorned. 2. To establish, fix, appoint, assign, prescribe, or determine. 3. To arrange, prepare, present, display, or put in order or array. 4. To direct, turn, or firmly apply the face, heart, eyes, mind, affection, or action toward something. 5. To start, advance, send out, proceed on a course or work, or make an attack, as in set forward, set forth, or set upon where those meanings apply. 6. To value or esteem; or, in set at nought or set light by, to despise. 7. Of the sun, to go down.
Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828
Sense 1: The bodily organ. Sense 2: The inward person: the mind, will, affections, conscience, or moral character.
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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.
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16I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.
16I loath it, I would not liue alway: let me alone, for my dayes are vanitie.
17What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
17*What is man, that thou shouldest magnifie him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart vpon him?
Selected passage18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
18And that thou shouldest visite him euery morning, and trie him euery moment?