Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers:
10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.
Job 7:6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.
Job 14:2Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
Psalms 82:5They have not known nor understood: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth shall be moved.
Psalms 102:11Because of thy anger and indignation: for having lifted me up thou hast thrown me down.
Psalms 144:4and my spirit is in anguish within me: my heart within me is troubled.
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 →