Verse 9

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; 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 flees also as a shadow and does not continue.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and 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 shadow that declines, and I am 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 as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: truly every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
  • Ps 90:4 : 4 For a thousand years in your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.