Job 8:9

New International Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How would you advise me to answer these people?” he asked.

Job 14:1

“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.

Job 14:2

They spring up like flowers and wither away; like fleeting shadows, they do not endure.

Job 32:7

I thought, ‘Age should speak; advanced years should teach wisdom.’

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 tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their understanding?

Psalm 102:11

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

Psalm 102:12

But you, Lord, sit enthroned forever; your renown endures through all generations.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their days are like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.

Psalm 82:5

“The ‘gods’ know nothing, they understand nothing. They walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Psalm 90:4

A thousand years in your sight are like a day that has just gone by, or like a watch in the night.