Job 9:25

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־רָ֑ץ בָּֽ֝רְח֗וּ לֹא־רָא֥וּ טוֹבָֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-yāmay qallû minnî-rāṣ bārəḥû lōʾ-rāʾû ṭôbâ

Grammar Details

*wə-yāmay*: conjunction + masculine plural noun + 1st person singular suffix - and my days
*qallû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - are swifter
*minnî-rāṣ*: preposition + qal participle masculine singular - than a runner
*bārəḥû*: qal perfect 3rd common plural - they flee
*lōʾ-rāʾû*: negative particle + qal perfect 3rd common plural - they do not see
*ṭôbâ*: feminine singular noun/adjective - good

Word Meanings

*yāmay*: days, time, lifetime
*qallû*: to be swift, be light, be insignificant
*rāṣ*: runner, courier
*bārəḥû*: to flee, run away, escape
*rāʾû*: to see, perceive, witness
*ṭôbâ*: good, pleasant, agreeable

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Job 7:6-7 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope. 7 Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh. 10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. {G1063} What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Esth 8:14 : 14 So the posts that rode upon swift steeds that were used in the king's service went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment; and the decree was given out in Shushan the palace.
Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, thou hast made my days [as] handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. {H5542}
Ps 39:11 : 11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, Thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: Surely every man is vanity. Selah
Ps 89:47 : 47 Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

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