Job 8:9

Bible in Basic English (1941)

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Ps 90:4 : 4 For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

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    8Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

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    15For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

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    4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Job 15:8-10
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    8Were you present at the secret meeting of God? and have you taken all wisdom for yourself?

    9What knowledge have you which we have not? is there anything in your mind which is not in ours?

    10With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

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    7No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

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    9For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

    10The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

    11Who has knowledge of the power of your wrath, or who takes note of the weight of your passion?

    12So give us knowledge of the number of our days, that we may get a heart of wisdom.

  • Ps 39:4-6
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    4Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.

    5You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

    6Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Job 20:4
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    4Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Jas 4:14
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    14When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

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    12Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Job 37:19
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    19Make clear to me what we are to say to him; we are unable to put our cause before him, because of the dark.

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    1As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

    2He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Job 10:5
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    5Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • Ps 90:4
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    4For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

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    8But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

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    9For this cause our right is far from us, and righteousness does not overtake us: we are looking for light, but there is only the dark; for the shining of the sun, but our way is in the night.

    10We go on our way, like blind men feeling for the wall, even like those who have no eyes: we are running against things in daylight as if it was evening; our place is in the dark like dead men.

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    26Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.

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    9We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.

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    10Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

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    10Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

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    6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

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    14For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

    15As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

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    5The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.

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    17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

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    27See, we have made search with care, and it is so; it has come to our ears; see that you take note of it for yourself.

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    47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

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  • Job 28:13
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    13Man has not seen the way to it, and it is not in the land of the living.

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    21No doubt you have knowledge of it, for then you had come to birth, and the number of your days is great.

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    7For we came into the world with nothing, and we are not able to take anything out;

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    11My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

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    12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.