Job 9:25

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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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 ¶ O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 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.
  • Jas 4:14 : 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.
  • Esth 8:14 : 14 [So] the posts that rode upon mules [and] camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
  • 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 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 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

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    72%

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