Job 9:25

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

Darby Translation

In The King James Version

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

In Context

24The earth is given over into the hand of the wicked [man]; he covereth the faces of its judges. If not, who then is it?

26They pass by like skiffs of reed; as an eagle that swoops upon the prey.

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Cross References

Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Psalms 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] hand-breadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before thee; verily, every man, [even] the high placed, is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalms 89:47Remember, as regards me, what life is. Wherefore hast thou created all the children of men to be vanity?

James 4:14ye who do not know what will be on the morrow, ([for] what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, appearing for a little while, and then disappearing,)

Matthew Henry on Job 9:23-25

22 This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked. 23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent. 24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he? Here Job touches briefly upon the main point now in dispute between him and his friends. They maintained that those who are righteous and good always prosper in this world, and none but the wicked are in misery and distress; he… Read the whole commentary →

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