Job 7:17

17. Man… magnify him Hirtzel is hardly justified in thinking that this verse is spoken in bitter irony. “Why shouldest thou break a fly upon a wheel?” Wordsworth. The Psalmist subsequently enlarges upon the thought of the text, Psalms 8:3-5. His sublime conception, What is man that God should honour him and visit him ( פקד , as here) with blessings, is no more sublime than this of Job, that God should also think of man and unremittingly try him, even by making him the mark (Job 7:20) at which, like an archer, he shoots his arrows. In the one case man is dwarfed in the comparison with the wonder-working of God in the field of creation here, in the comparison with his wonder-doing within the more wonderful scheme of Providence.