Job 8:9

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

(For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
  • Job 14:2 : 2 As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings `are' an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.
  • Job 7:6 : 6 My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.
  • Ps 90:4 : 4 For a thousand years in Thine eyes `are' as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

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    8 For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,

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    15 for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

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    4 Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.

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    7 For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

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    9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

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    4 `Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it `is',' I know how frail I `am'.

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    4 This hast thou known from antiquity? Since the placing of man on earth?

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    19 Let us know what we say to Him, We set not in array because of darkness.

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    1 Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

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    5 As the days of man `are' Thy days? Thy years as the days of a man?

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    4 For a thousand years in Thine eyes `are' as yesterday, For it passeth on, yea, a watch by night.

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