Job 14:3
Good News Translation
Will you even look at me, God, or put me on trial and judge me?

New Revised Standard Version
Do you fix your eyes on such a one? Do you bring me into judgment with you?

Contemporary English Version
And so, I ask you, God, why pick on me?

New American Bible
Upon such a one will you set your eyes, bringing me into judgment before you?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?

And dost

Job 7:17,18 What is a man, that thou shouldst magnify him or why dost thou set thy heart upon him? . . .

Job 13:25 Against a leaf, that is carried away with the wind, thou shewest thy power, and thou pursuest a dry straw.

Psalm 144:3 Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

bringest

Job 9:19,20,32 If strength be demanded, he is most strong: if equity of judgment, no man dare bear witness for me. . . .

Job 13:27 Thou hast put my feet in the stocks, and hast observed all my paths, and hast considered the steps of my feet:

Psalm 143:2 And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Romans 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law speaketh, it speaketh to them that are in the law: that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be made subject to God.

Context
Job Laments the Finality of Death
2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. 3And dost thou think it meet to open thy eyes upon such an one, and to bring him into judgment with thee?4Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?…
Cross References
Job 7:18
Thou visitest him early in the morning, and thou provest him suddenly.

Job 22:4
Shall he reprove thee for fear, and come with thee into judgment:

Psalm 8:4
What is man, that thou art mindful of him? or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Psalm 143:2
And enter not into judgment with thy servant: for in thy sight no man living shall be justified.

Psalm 144:3
Lord, what is man, that thou art made known to him? or the son of man, that thou makest account of him?

Job 14:2
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