Job 8:9

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

8Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

10Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

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Cross References

Genesis 47:9And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

Job 7:6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Job 14:2He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Psalms 82:5They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

Psalms 102:11\102:10\Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

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 →

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