Job 8:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam took the opinion of the old men who had been with Solomon his father when he was living, and said, In your opinion, what answer am I to give to this people?

Job 14:1

As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Job 32:7

I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.

Job 7:6

My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

Job 8:10

Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you?

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 82:5

They have no knowledge or sense; they go about in the dark: all the bases of the earth are moved.

Psalm 90:4

For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.