Job 8:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Our own time has been short, like a fading shadow, and we know very little.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “I have lived only a hundred and thirty years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Rehoboam went to some leaders who had been his father's senior officials, and he asked them, “What should I tell these people?”

Job 14:1

Life is short and sorrowful for every living soul.

Job 14:2

We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish.

Job 32:7

I once believed age was the source of wisdom;

Job 7:6

and my days are running out quicker than the thread of a fast-moving needle.

Job 8:10

But they will instruct you with great understanding.

Psalm 102:11

My life fades like a shadow at the end of day and withers like grass.

Psalm 102:12

Our LORD, you are King for ever and will always be famous.

Psalm 144:4

We disappear like a breath; we last no longer than a faint shadow.

Psalm 39:5

You made my life short, so brief that the time means nothing to you. “Human life is but a breath,

Psalm 82:5

“None of you know or understand a thing. You live in darkness, while the foundations of the earth tremble.

Psalm 90:4

but a thousand years mean nothing to you! They are merely a day gone by or a few hours in the night.