Job 8:9
Our days on earth fade as quickly as a passing shadow.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
In Context
10Won't they teach you and explain what they know?
Cross References
Genesis 47:9“I have been wandering for 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My life has been short and difficult—I have not lived as long as my forefathers who also wandered from place to place.”
Job 7:6My days pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
Job 14:2like a flower that blooms and withers, like a passing shadow that soon disappears.
Psalms 82:5They don't have any wisdom; they live in the dark; the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 102:11My life is fading away like a shadow that lengthens—I'm withering away like grass.
Psalms 144:4Humanity is like a breath; their lives are like a passing shadow.
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 →