Job 9:25

My days have been swifter than a runner, || They have fled, they have not seen good,

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

In Context

24Earth has been given || Into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of her judges, || If not—where, who [is] he?

26They have passed on with ships of reed, || As an eagle darts on food.

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Cross References

Job 7:6My days swifter than a loom, || And they are consumed without hope.

Psalms 39:5Behold, You have made my days handbreadths, || And my age [is] as nothing before You, || Only, every man set up [is] all vanity. Selah.

Psalms 89:47Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?

James 4:14who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little [while], and then is vanishing;

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 →

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