Lexicon :: Strong's H582 - 'ĕnôš

‘I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces [scattering them far away],

I will remove the memory of them from men,”

The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh—valiant men able to bear shield and sword, and to shoot with the bow, and skillful in war—were 44,760 who went to war.

‘Can [mortal] man be just before God or be more righteous than He?

Can a man be pure before his Maker or be more cleansed than He?

“Behold, how happy and fortunate is the man whom God reproves,

So do not despise or reject the discipline of the Almighty [subjecting you to trial and suffering].

“Is not man forced to labor on earth?

And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

“What is man that You [should] magnify him [and think him important]?

And that You are concerned about him?

“Yes, I know it is true.

But how can a mortal man be right before God?

‘Do You have eyes of flesh?

Do You see as a man sees?

“Will it be well for you when He investigates you [and your tactics against me]?

Or will you deceive Him as one deceives a man?

Water wears away the stones,

Its floods and torrents wash away the soil of the earth,

So You [O Lord] destroy the hope of man.

“What is man, that he should be pure and clean,

Or he who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous and just?

“How then can man be justified and righteous with God?

Or how can he who is born of a woman be pure and clean?

How much less man, that maggot,

And the son of man, that worm!”

“He breaks open (mine) shafts far away from where people live,

[In places] forgotten by the [human] foot;

They dangle [in the mines] and hang away from men.

“Man does not know the value of it;

Nor is it found in the land of the living.

“But there is [a vital force and] a spirit [of intelligence] in man,

And the breath of the Almighty gives them understanding.

“Look, let me answer you, in this you are not right or just;

For God is greater and far superior to man.

“He will pray to God, and He shall be favorable to him,

So that he looks at His face with joy;

For God restores to man His righteousness [that is, his right standing with God—with its joys].

“All men have seen God’s work;

Man looks at it from a distance.

What is man that You are mindful of him,

And the son of [earthborn] man that You care for him?

Arise, O LORD, do not let man prevail;

Let the nations be judged before You.

To vindicate and obtain justice for the fatherless and the oppressed,

So that man who is of the earth will no longer terrify them.

But it is you, a man my equal and my counsel,

My companion and my familiar friend;

To the Chief Musician; set to [the tune of] “Silent Dove Among Those Far Away.” A Mikhtam of David. [A record of memorable thoughts] when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Be gracious to me, O God, for man has trampled on me;

All day long the adversary oppresses and torments me.

You made men (charioteers) [fn]ride over our heads [in defeat];

We went through fire and through water,

Yet You brought us out into a [broad] place of abundance [to be refreshed].

They are not in trouble as other men,

Nor are they plagued like mankind.

You turn man back to dust,

And say, “Return [to the earth], O children of [mortal] men!”

As for man, his days are like grass;

Like a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

And wine which makes the heart of man glad,

So that he may make his face glisten with oil,

And bread to sustain and strengthen man’s heart.

Your testimonies also are my delight

And my counselors.

LORD, what is man that You take notice of him?

Or the son of man that You think of him?

Then the LORD said to me, “Take for yourself a large tablet [for public display] and write on it in ordinary characters: Belonging to [fn]Maher-shalal-hash-baz.

Therefore [fn]all hands will fall limp,

And every man’s heart will melt.

I will make mortal man more rare than fine gold,

And mankind [scarcer] than the pure gold of Ophir.

The highways are deserted, the traveler has ceased [to appear].

The enemy has broken the covenant, he has rejected the [fn]cities,

He has no regard for [any] man.

“Listen to Me, you who know righteousness (right standing with God),

The people in whose heart is My law and instruction;

Do not fear the reproach and taunting of man,

Nor be distressed at their reviling.

“I, even I, am He who comforts you.

Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies

And of a son of man who is made [as destructible] as grass,

“Blessed (happy, fortunate) is the man who does this,

And the son of man who takes hold of it,

Who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it,

And keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

For I have heard the whispering and defaming words of many,

“Terror on every side!

Denounce him! Let us denounce him!”

All my familiar and trusted friends,

[Those who are] watching for my fall, say,

“Perhaps he will be persuaded and deceived; then we will overcome him,

And take our revenge on him.”