Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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- 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
- Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
- Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
- Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to 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 long shadow. I have 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, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
- Ps 90:4 : 4 For a thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, As a watch in the night.
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4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
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9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
10 The days of our years are seventy, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, For it passes quickly, and we fly away.
11 Who knows the power of your anger, Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
12 So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.
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4 "Yahweh, show me my end, What is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.
6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
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4 Don't you know this from old time, Since man was placed on earth,
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14 Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
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12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
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19 Teach us what we shall tell him; For we can't make our case by reason of darkness.
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5 Are your days as the days of mortals, Or your years as man's years,
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4 For a thousand years in your sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, As a watch in the night.
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9 Therefore is justice far from us, neither does righteousness overtake us: we look for light, but, behold, darkness; for brightness, but we walk in obscurity.
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26 Behold, God is great, and we don't know him. The number of his years is unsearchable.
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10 Shall they not teach you, tell you, And utter words out of their heart?
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10 Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.
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6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
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14 For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.
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11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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19 "What is the way to the dwelling of light? As for darkness, where is the place of it,
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12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.