Job 8:9

A Conservative Version

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

2 Chronicles 10:6

And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel do ye give me to return an answer to this people?

Job 8:10

Shall they not teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?

Job 32:7

I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

Job 14:1

Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

Psalm 82:5

They know not, nor do they understand. They walk to and fro in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O LORD, will abide forever, and thy memorial to all generations.