Job 8:9

New English Translation

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are resident foreigners and nomads in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

2 Chronicles 10:6

King Rehoboam consulted with the older advisers who had served his father Solomon when he had been alive. He asked them, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

Job 14:1

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

Job 14:2

He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

Job 32:7

I said to myself, ‘Age should speak, and length of years should make wisdom known.’

Job 7:6

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

Job 8:10

Will they not instruct you and speak to you, and bring forth words from their understanding?

Psalm 102:11

My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, rule forever, and your reputation endures.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

Psalm 39:5

Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.

Psalm 82:5

They neither know nor understand. They stumble around in the dark, while all the foundations of the earth crumble.

Psalm 90:4

Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.