Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)
World English Bible
In The King James Version
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
In Context
8“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
10Shall they not teach you, tell you, and utter words out of their heart?
Cross References
Genesis 47:9Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 14:2He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Psalms 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Psalms 102:11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes 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 →