Job 8:9

King James Version 1611 (Original)

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

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  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For 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.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And 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.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Behold, 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.
  • Ps 90:4 : 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

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  • 8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:

  • 15 For 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.

  • 4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Job 15:8-10
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    8 Hast thou heard the secret of God? and dost thou restrain wisdom to thyself?

    9 What knowest thou, that we know not? what understandest thou, which is not in us?

    10 With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

  • 7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

  • Ps 90:9-12
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    9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

    10 The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

    11 Who knoweth the power of thine anger? even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath.

    12 So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

  • Ps 39:4-6
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    4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.

    5 Behold, 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.

    6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • 4 Knowest thou not this of old, since man was placed upon earth,

  • 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  • 12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • 19 Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    72%

    1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

    2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • 5 Are thy days as the days of man? are thy years as man's days,

  • 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

  • 8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

  • Isa 59:9-10
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    9 Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

    10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.

  • 26 Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

  • 9 We see not our signs: there is no more any prophet: neither is there among us any that knoweth how long.

  • 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

  • 10 Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

  • 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

  • Ps 103:14-16
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    70%

    14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.

    15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

    16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

  • 17 For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.

  • 27 Lo this, we have searched it, so it is; hear it, and know thou it for thy good.

  • 47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

  • 1 Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

  • 9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

  • 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

  • 21 Knowest thou it, because thou wast then born? or because the number of thy days is great?

  • 7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

  • 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  • 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

  • 12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

  • 16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

  • 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

  • 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.