Job 8:9
(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
In Context
10Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and 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 father
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 14:2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Psalms 82:5They know not, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.
Psalms 144:4Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.
Matthew Henry on Job 8:9-20
8 For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) 10 Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? 11 Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water? 12 Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb. 13 So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:… Read the whole commentary →