Job 9:25

My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 giuen into the hand of ye wicked: he couereth the faces of the iudges therof: if not, where is he? or who is he?

26They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.

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Cross References

Job 7:6My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.

Psalms 39:5Beholde, thou hast made my dayes as an hand breadth, and mine age as nothing in respect of thee: surely euery man in his best state is altogether vanitie. Selah.

Psalms 89:47Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?

James 4:14(And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth 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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