Job 9:25 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁵ “My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.

Common English Bible

²⁵ My days are swifter than a runner; they flee and don’t experience good.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ My days have been swifter than a messenger; they have fled and have not seen goodness.

Job 9:25 Cross References

James 4:14

Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

Psalm 89:47

Remember how short my time is— for what vanity you have created all mortals!

Psalm 39:11

“You chastise mortals in punishment for sin, consuming like a moth what is dear to them; surely everyone is a mere breath. Selah

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah

Esther 8:14

So the couriers, mounted on their royal steeds, hurried out, urged by the king’s command. The decree was issued in the citadel of Susa.

2 Chronicles 30:6

So couriers went throughout all Israel and Judah with letters from the king and his officials, as the king had commanded, saying, “O people of Israel, return to the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so that he may turn again to the remnant of you who have escaped from the hand of the kings of Assyria.

Psalm 4:6

There are many who say, “O that we might see some good! Let the light of your face shine on us, O Lord!”

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,