Job 9:25
My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
In Context
26They have passed on with ships of reed, As an eagle darteth on food.
Cross References
Job 7:6My days swifter than a weaving machine, And they are consumed without hope.
Psalms 39:5Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age [is] as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity [is] every man set up. Selah.
Psalms 89:47Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
James 4:14who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
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 →