Job 8:9
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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
In other translations
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
- Psalm 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
- Psalm 102:11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
- Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
- Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
- Psalm 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Psalm 90:4For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.
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