Job 8:9

Geneva Bible (1560)

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth & thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.
  • Ps 90:4 : 4 For a thousande yeeres in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, & as a watch in the night.

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    8 Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.

  • Job 15:8-10
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    8 Hast thou heard the secret counsell of God, and doest thou restraine wisedome to thee?

    9 What knowest thou that we knowe not? and vnderstandest that is not in vs?

    10 With vs are both auncient and very aged men, farre older then thy father.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7 For he knoweth not that which shalbe: for who can tell him when it shalbe?

  • Ps 90:9-12
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    9 For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought.

    10 The time of our life is threescore yeeres and ten, and if they be of strength, fourescore yeeres: yet their strength is but labour and sorowe: for it is cut off quickly, and we flee away.

    11 Who knoweth the power of thy wrath? for according to thy feare is thine anger.

    12 Teach vs so to nomber our dayes, that we may apply our heartes vnto wisdome.

  • Ps 39:4-6
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    4 Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.

    5 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

    6 Doubtlesse man walketh in a shadowe, and disquieteth himselfe in vaine: he heapeth vp riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

  • Job 20:4
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    4 Knowest thou not this of olde? and since God placed man vpon the earth,

  • Jas 4:14
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    14 (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)

  • Eccl 6:12
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    12 (7:2) For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?

  • Job 37:19
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    19 Tell vs what we shall say vnto him: for we can not dispose our matter because of darknes.

  • Job 14:1-2
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    1 Man that is borne of woman, is of short continuance, and full of trouble.

    2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

  • Job 10:5
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    5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? Or thy yeres, as the time of man,

  • Ps 90:4
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    4 For a thousande yeeres in thy sight are as yesterday when it is past, & as a watch in the night.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8 Though a man liue many yeeres, and in them all he reioyce, yet hee shall remember the daies of darkenesse, because they are manie, all that commeth is vanitie.

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    9 Therefore is iudgement farre from vs, neither doeth iustice come neere vnto vs: we waite for light, but loe, it is darkenesse: for brightnesse, but we walke in darkenesse.

    10 Wee grope for the wall like the blinde, and we grope as one without eyes: we stumble at the noone day as in the twilight: we are in solitarie places, as dead men.

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    26 Beholde, God is excellent, and we knowe him not, neither can the nomber of his yeres bee searched out.

  • Ps 74:9
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    9 We see not our signes: there is not one Prophet more, nor any with vs that knoweth howe long.

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    10 Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?

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    10 (7:12) Say not thou, Why is it that the former dayes were better then these? For thou doest not enquire wisely of this thing.

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    6 My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.

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    14 For he knoweth whereof we be made: he remembreth that we are but dust.

    15 The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he.

    16 For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5 For the liuing knowe that they shall dye, but the dead knowe nothing at all: neither haue they any more a rewarde: for their remembrance is forgotten.

  • Job 24:17
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    17 But the morning is euen to them as the shadow of death: if one knowe them, they are in the terrours of the shadowe of death.

  • Job 5:27
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    27 Lo, thus haue we inquired of it, and so it is: heare this and knowe it for thy selfe.

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    47 Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

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    1 Boast not thy selfe of to morowe: for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

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    9 Great men are not alway wise, neither doe the aged alway vnderstand iudgement.

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    13 Man knoweth not the price thereof: for it is not found in the land of the liuing.

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    21 Knewest thou it, because thou wast then borne, and because the nomber of thy dayes is great?

  • 1 Tim 6:7
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    7 For we brought nothing into the world, and it is certaine, that we can carie nothing out.

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    11 My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.

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    1 Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?

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    12 For neither doth man knowe his time, but as the fishes which are taken in an euill net, and as the birdes that are caught in the snare: so are the children of men snared in the euill time when it falleth vpon them suddenly.

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16 When I applied mine heart to knowe wisedome, and to behold the busines that is done on earth, that neither day nor night the eyes of man take sleepe,

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    19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? And where is the place of darkenesse,

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    12 Though it were in greene and not cutte downe, yet shall it wither before any other herbe.