Job 8:9

English Standard Version 2016

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and come to their end without hope.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 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 fathers in the days of their sojourning.”

Psalm 90:4

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

Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he was yet alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Job 8:10

Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?

Job 32:7

I said, ‘Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.’

Job 14:1

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

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.