Job 8:9

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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Referenced Verses

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

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