Job 9:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Renewed Complaint“My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:6-7 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh. 10 The days of our lives add up to seventy years, or eighty, if one is especially strong. But even one’s best years are marred by trouble and oppression. Yes, they pass quickly and we fly away.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 You do not know about tomorrow. What is your life like? For you are a puff of smoke that appears for a short time and then vanishes.
  • Esth 8:14 : 14 The couriers who were riding the royal horses went forth with the king’s edict without delay. And the law was presented in Susa the citadel as well.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
  • Ps 39:11 : 11 You severely discipline people for their sins; like a moth you slowly devour their strength. Surely all people are a mere vapor.(Selah)
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 9:26
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    26They glide by like reed boats, like an eagle that swoops down on its prey.

  • Job 7:6-8
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    80%

    6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

    7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

    8The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone.

  • Job 17:11-12
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    11My days have passed, my plans are shattered, even the desires of my heart.

    12These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’

  • Job 30:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

    16Job’s Despondency“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.

  • Job 24:18
    72%

    18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

  • Ps 102:11
    72%

    11My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

  • Job 9:11
    72%

    11If he passes by me, I cannot see him, if he goes by, I cannot perceive him.

  • Job 10:20
    72%

    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Lam 4:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18צ(Tsade) Our enemies hunted us down at every step so that we could not walk about in our streets. Our end drew near, our days were numbered, for our end had come!

    19ק(Qof) Those who pursued us were swifter than eagles in the sky. They chased us over the mountains; they ambushed us in the wilderness.

  • Ps 102:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23He has taken away my strength in the middle of life; he has cut short my days.

    24I say,“O my God, please do not take me away in the middle of my life! You endure through all generations.

  • Amos 2:14
    71%

    14Fast runners will find no place to hide; strong men will have no strength left; warriors will not be able to save their lives.

  • Job 30:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

    13They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.

  • Ps 31:10
    71%

    10For my life nears its end in pain; my years draw to a close as I groan. My strength fails me because of my sin, and my bones become brittle.

  • Ps 39:5
    71%

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

  • Ps 109:23
    71%

    23I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.

  • Isa 38:12
    71%

    12My dwelling place is removed and taken away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I rolled up my life like a weaver rolls cloth; from the loom he cuts me off. You turn day into night and end my life.

  • Job 9:24
    71%

    24If a land has been given into the hand of a wicked man, he covers the faces of its judges; if it is not he, then who is it?

  • Ps 90:9
    71%

    9Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

  • Ps 38:10
    70%

    10My heart beats quickly; my strength leaves me; I can hardly see.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass, and has set darkness over my paths.

    9He has stripped me of my honor and has taken the crown off my head.

  • Job 17:1
    70%

    1My spirit is broken, my days have faded out, the grave awaits me.

  • Isa 38:10
    70%

    10“I thought,‘In the middle of my life I must walk through the gates of Sheol, I am deprived of the rest of my years.’

  • Job 20:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8Like a dream he flies away, never again to be found, and like a vision of the night he is put to flight.

    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

  • Ps 73:2
    70%

    2But as for me, my feet almost slipped; my feet almost slid out from under me.

  • Job 23:8
    70%

    8The Inaccessibility and Power of God“If I go to the east, he is not there, and to the west, yet I do not perceive him.

  • Job 14:2
    70%

    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

  • Lam 3:9
    69%

    9He has blocked every road I take with a wall of hewn stones; he has made every path impassable.

  • Lam 3:11
    69%

    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Ps 102:3
    69%

    3For my days go up in smoke, and my bones are charred like a fireplace.

  • Ps 144:4
    69%

    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Job 17:7
    69%

    7My eyes have grown dim with grief; my whole frame is but a shadow.

  • Ps 55:8
    69%

    8I will hurry off to a place that is safe from the strong wind and the gale.”

  • Lam 1:13
    69%

    13מ(Mem) He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long.

  • Job 24:1
    69%

    1The Apparent Indifference of God“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

  • Ps 31:15
    69%

    15You determine my destiny! Rescue me from the power of my enemies and those who chase me.

  • Job 4:20
    69%

    20They are destroyed between morning and evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Job 17:15
    69%

    15where then is my hope? And my hope, who sees it?

  • Ps 56:6
    69%

    6They stalk and lurk; they watch my every step, as they prepare to take my life.

  • Ps 89:47
    69%

    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

  • Job 10:5
    69%

    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • Ps 49:5
    69%

    5Why should I be afraid in times of trouble, when the sinful deeds of deceptive men threaten to overwhelm me?