Job 8:9

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow —

JPS TaNaKH 1917

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, I pray thee, of the former generation, and apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out —

10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

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Cross References

Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh: 'The days of the years of my sojournings are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.'

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

Job 14:2He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Psalms 82:5They know not, neither do they understand; they go about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are moved.

Psalms 102:11(102-12) My days are like a lengthening shadow; and I am withered like grass.

Psalms 144:4Man is like unto a breath; his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

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 →

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