Job 9:25

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 7:6-7 : 6 My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope. 7 Remember Thou that my life `is' a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. 10 Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
  • Esth 8:14 : 14 The runners, riding on the dromedary, `and' the mules, have gone out, hastened and pressed by the word of the king, and the law hath been given in Shushan the palace.
  • 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 39:11 : 11 With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity `is' every man. Selah.
  • Ps 89:47 : 47 Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 26They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.

  • Job 7:6-8
    3 verses
    80%

    6My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.

    7Remember Thou that my life `is' a breath, Mine eye turneth not back to see good.

    8The eye of my beholder beholdeth me not. Thine eyes `are' upon me -- and I am not.

  • Job 17:11-12
    2 verses
    75%

    11My days have passed by, My devices have been broken off, The possessions of my heart!

    12Night for day they appoint, Light `is' near because of darkness.

  • Job 30:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

    16And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

  • 18Light he `is' on the face of the waters, Vilified is their portion in the earth, He turneth not the way of vineyards.

  • 11My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

  • 11Lo, He goeth over by me, and I see not, And He passeth on, and I attend not to it.

  • 20Are not my days few? Cease then, and put from me, And I brighten up a little,

  • Lam 4:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.

    19Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned `after' us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

  • Ps 102:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23He hath humbled in the way my power, He hath shortened my days.

    24I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations `are' Thine years.

  • 14And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.

  • Job 30:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

    12On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

    13They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'

  • 10For my life hath been consumed in sorrow And my years in sighing. Feeble because of mine iniquity hath been my strength, And my bones have become old.

  • 5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.

  • 23As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

  • 12My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

  • 24Earth hath been given Into the hand of the wicked one. The face of its judges he covereth, If not -- where, who `is' he?

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

  • 10My heart `is' panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.

  • Job 19:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8My way He hedged up, and I pass not over, And on my paths darkness He placeth.

    9Mine honour from off me He hath stripped, And He turneth the crown from my head.

  • 1My spirit hath been destroyed, My days extinguished -- graves `are' for me.

  • 10`I -- I said in the cutting off of my days, I go in to the gates of Sheol, I have numbered the remnant of mine years.

  • Job 20:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8As a dream he fleeth, and they find him not, And he is driven away as a vision of the night,

    9The eye hath not seen him, and addeth not. And not again doth his place behold him.

  • 2As nothing, have my steps slipped, For I have been envious of the boastful,

  • 8Lo, forward I go -- and He is not, And backward -- and I perceive him not.

  • 2As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

  • 9He hath hedged my ways with hewn work, My paths He hath made crooked.

  • 11My ways He is turning aside, and He pulleth me in pieces, He hath made me a desolation.

  • 3For consumed in smoke have been my days, And my bones as a fire-brand have burned.

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

  • 7And dim from sorrow is mine eye, And my members as a shadow all of them.

  • 8I hasten escape for myself, From a rushing wind, from a whirlwind.

  • 13From above He hath sent fire into my bone, And it subdueth it, He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me backward, He hath made me desolate -- all the day sick.

  • 1Wherefore from the Mighty One Times have not been hidden, And those knowing Him have not seen His days.

  • 15In Thy hand `are' my times, Deliver me from the hand of my enemies, And from my pursuers.

  • 20From morning to evening are beaten down, Without any regarding, for ever they perish.

  • 15And where `is' now my hope? Yea, my hope, who doth behold it?

  • 6They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.

  • 47Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

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

  • 5Why do I fear in days of evil? The iniquity of my supplanters doth compass me.