Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
In Context
8Inquire therefore, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thy selfe to search of their fathers.
10Shall not they teach thee and tell thee, and vtter the wordes of their heart?
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Iaakob sayd vnto Pharaoh, The whole time of my pilgrimage is an hundreth and thirty yeeres: fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life bene, and I haue not attayned vnto the yeeres of the life of my fathers, in the dayes of their pilgrimages.
Job 7:6My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
Job 14:2He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
Psalms 82:5They knowe not and vnderstand nothing: they walke in darkenes, albeit all the foundations of the earth be mooued.
Psalms 102:11My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
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 →