Job 9:25

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

World English Bible British with Deuterocanon

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 covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

26They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.

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Cross References

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

Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.

Psalms 89:47Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

James 4:14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

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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