Job 9:25

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

26They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

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Cross References

Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah

Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

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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