Job 9:25
The days of my life race by like a runner, rushing past without me seeing any happiness.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
In Context
26They pass by like fast sailing ships, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days pass quicker than a weaver's shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
Psalms 39:5Just look at the tiny amount of days you have given me! In your eyes my whole lifetime is like nothing. Our lives here are just a breath… Selah.
Psalms 89:47Remember me—my life is so short! Why did you bother creating futile humanity?
James 4:14You have no idea what will happen tomorrow! What's your life like? It's just a mist that appears for a little while, and then is gone.
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 →