Job 8:9
For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days [are] a shadow on earth.
Literal Standard 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
8For inquire, please, of a former generation, || And prepare for a search of their fathers,
10Do they not show you—speak to you, || And from their heart bring forth words?
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob says to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings [are] one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.”
Job 7:6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.
Job 14:2As a flower he has gone forth, and is cut off, || And he flees as a shadow and does not stand.
Psalms 82:5They did not know, nor do they understand, || They habitually walk in darkness, || All the foundations of earth are moved.
Psalms 102:11My days [are] stretched out as a shadow, || And I am withered as the herb.
Psalms 144:4Man has been like a breath, || His days [are] as a shadow passing by.
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 →