Job 9:25
My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
In Context
26They have passed by as ships carrying fruits, as an eagle flying to the prey.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.
Psalms 39:5I spoke with my tongue : O Lord, make me know my end. And what is the number of my days : that I may know what is wanting to me.
Psalms 89:47How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?
James 4:14Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.
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 →