Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
In Context
10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained unto 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 cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalms 82:5They know not, neither do they understand; they walk to and fro in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are moved.
Psalms 102:11My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Psalms 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth 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 →