Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Job 10:4
Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
4. Job hazards the supposition that God has eyes like men and may see amiss, to account for His mistaken treatment of him.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Hast thou eyes of flesh? – Eyes like man. Dost thou look upon man with the same disposition to discern faults; the same uncharitableness and inclination to construe everything in the severest manner possible, which characterizes man? Possibly Job may have reference here to the harsh judgment of his friends, and means to ask whether it could be possible for God to evince the same feelings in judging of him which they had done.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 4. Hast thou eyes of flesh!] Dost thou judge as man judges? Illustrated by the next clause, Seest thou as man seeth?
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Of flesh, i.e. of a man, who is called flesh, as Gen 6:13; Isa 40:6.
Seest thou as man seeth? Man seeth outsides only, and judgeth by appearances, and is liable to many mistakes, and cannot search out secret faults without forcing men by cruel usage to accuse themselves: but thou needest none of these arts; thou seest my heart and mine uprightness, which my friends do not see, who therefore are more excusable in charging me with hypocrisy: but thou knowest all things, thou needest not examine me by tortures, as thou now dost, Job 10:6. For thou knowest that I am not wicked, as he saith, Job 10:7, and therefore do not thou deal with me as if I were wicked.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
4-6. Dost Thou see as feebly asman? that is, with the same uncharitable eye, as, for instance, Job’sfriends? Is Thy time as short? Impossible! Yet one might think, fromthe rapid succession of Thy strokes, that Thou hadst no time to sparein overwhelming me.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Hast thou eyes of flesh?…. God has eyes, but not fleshly ones; he has eyes of love, grace, and mercy, which are always upon his people for good, and are never withdrawn from them; and he has eyes of displeasure and wrath on sinful men, to destroy them; these are not made of flesh, or like the eyes of flesh and blood, or of men; fleshy eyes cannot see at any great distance, and only in one place at a time, and only one object after another; they cannot see in the dark, and what they are, and only outward objects; and in these they are sometimes deceived, and at length fail: but the eyes of God see all things, at the greatest distance; he looks down from heaven, and beholds all the children of men on earth, and all their actions; his eyes are in every place, beholding the evil and the good; he can see in the dark as well as in the light, the darkness and the light are both alike to him; he beholds not only outward actions and visible objects, but the hearts of men, and all that is in them; nor is he ever deceived, nor will his sight ever fail: though Job, perhaps, may mean carnal eyes; that is, evil ones, as especially envious ones are: “is thine eye evil?” Mt 20:15; that is, envious; and it is as if Job should say, dost thou envy me my former prosperity and peace, that thou searchest so narrowly into my conduct to find iniquity in me, and take advantage against me?
or seest thou as man seeth? look with hatred and envy, as one man does upon another: so seemed the dispensations of God towards Job, as if he did, as he suggests.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
4. Eyes of flesh A second reason is, that God is not limited by human faculties. He sees not through the external sense but by intuition. He has not to reason, as man does, from what appears. His sight is thwarted by no dimming veil of sense, but He at once comprehends the heart.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Job 10:4. Hast thou eyes of flesh Schultens observes, that eyes of flesh are here used for eyes of envy and hatred; and that to see, in the next clause, signifies to envy.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
Job 10:4 Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
Ver. 4. Hast thou eyes of flesh? ] Which see but the surface of things, and not that neither in the dark. Hast thou not fiery eyes, Rev 1:14 , that need no outward light, but see by sending out a ray, and pierce the inward parts also? Hast thou not made the eye? yea, the optic virtue in the eye, which seeth all and is seen of none? If the sun be the eye of the world, God is much more. The Greeks give him his name from seeing, because he seeth through and through; eyes he hath, but not of flesh; he seeth, but not as man.
Or seest thou as man seeth?
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Hast. ? seest. ? Figure of speech Erotesis. App-6.
man = mortal man. Hebrew. ‘enosh. App-14.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
seest thou: Job 9:32, 1Sa 16:7, Luk 16:15, Rev 1:14
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 10:4. Hast thou eyes of flesh? No. Eyes of flesh cannot see in the dark: but darkness hideth not from God. Eyes of flesh are but in one place at a time, and can see but a little way. But the eyes of the Lord are in every place, and run to and fro through the whole earth. Eyes of flesh will shortly be darkened by age, and shut up by death. But the eyes of God are ever the same, nor does his sight ever decay. Or seest thou as man Man sees the outside only, and judges by appearances: but thou seest my heart.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
10:4 Hast thou eyes of {g} flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?
(g) Do you do this of ignorance.