Job 8:9

Modern English Version

for we were born but yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who stood in the presence of Solomon his father when he was alive saying, “How do you counsel that I should give a response to this people?”

Job 14:1

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

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Job 32:7

I said, ‘Age should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.’

Job 7:6

“My days fly more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 8:10

Will they not teach you, and tell you, and bring forth words out of their heart?

Psalm 102:11

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

Psalm 102:12

But You, O  Lord, shall endure forever, the remembrance of Your name to all generations.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:5

Behold, You have made my days as a few handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man at his best is as a mere breath.”    Selah

Psalm 82:5

“They have neither knowledge nor understanding; they walk around in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.”

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in Your sight are like yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.