Verse Lens · Context pointer
Job 7:18 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 18. 18And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
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Role in This Section
Job 7:18 advances the thought unit with the words “And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?.” Job presses the unit's question through “And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?”, a line that belongs to Job Reverses Psalmic Wonder into a Plea for Space.
Read It With
- Job 7:17–7:21
Read Job 7:18 with 7:17–7:21. Read alone, “And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?” could lose its speaker, the question or claim it develops, and the unit's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Job asks why God magnifies and continually tests a mortal, admits the possibility of sin without conceding the friends' case, and pleads for pardon before death.
Why It Needs Context
Job 7:18 depends on 7:17–7:21; isolating “And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?” would detach a poetic premise, image, response, or transition from Job and “Job Reverses Psalmic Wonder into a Plea for Space.”
Read Job 7:17–21 together
Why these verses belong together: Job 7:17–7:21 follows the pinned KJV paragraphing and holds together one sustained speech movement: “Job Reverses Psalmic Wonder into a Plea for Space.” The next unit begins with a new stanza, question sequence, scene, speaker response, or rhetorical turn.
Verse 17. 17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him?
Verse 18. 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, and try him every moment?
Verse 19. 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me, nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
Verse 20. 20 I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
Verse 21. 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.
Continue in Context
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Read Job 7:17–7:21 — Job Reverses Psalmic Wonder into a Plea for SpaceSources used for this context pointer
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Job 7:17–7:21, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Job
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Job.xml, OSIS 7:17–7:21
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