Job 8:9

God's Word

We have only been around since yesterday, and we know nothing. Our days on earth are only a fleeting shadow.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered Pharaoh, “The length of my stay on earth has been 130 years. The years of my life have been few and difficult, fewer than my ancestors’ years.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

To you we are all like our ancestors— foreigners without permanent homes. Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. There’s no hope ⌞for them⌟.

2 Chronicles 10:6

King Rehoboam sought advice from the older leaders who had served his father Solomon while he was still alive. He asked, “What do you advise? How should I respond to these people?”

Job 14:1

“A person who is born of a woman is short-lived and is full of trouble.

Job 14:2

He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.

Job 32:7

I thought, ‘Age should speak, and experience should teach wisdom.’

Job 7:6

My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They are spent without hope.

Job 8:10

Won’t their words teach you? Won’t they share their thoughts with you?

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, remain forever. You are remembered throughout every generation.

Psalm 144:4

Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 39:5

Indeed, you have made the length of my days ⌞only⌟ a few inches. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Selah

Psalm 82:5

Wicked people do not know or understand anything. As they walk around in the dark, all the foundations of the earth shake.

Psalm 90:4

Indeed, in your sight a thousand years are like a single day, like yesterday—already past— like an hour in the night.