Job 8:9
(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
In Context
8For, ask I pray thee of a former generation, And prepare to a search of their fathers,
10Do they not shew thee — speak to thee, And from their heart bring forth words?
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings [are] an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
Job 7:6My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Job 14:2As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
Psalms 82:5They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.
Psalms 102:11My days as a shadow [are] stretched out, And I — as the herb I am withered.
Psalms 144:4Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.
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 →