Job 8:9
For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
In Context
8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former generation, and attend to the researches of their fathers;
10Shall not they 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 sojourning are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they do not attain to the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojourning.
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalms 82:5They know not, neither do they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.
Psalms 102:11My days are like a lengthened-out shadow, and I, I am withered like grass.
Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanity; his days are as a shadow that passeth 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 →