Job 8:9

New King James Version

For we were born 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; 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 pilgrimage.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As were all our fathers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam consulted the elders who stood before his father Solomon while he still lived, saying, “How do you advise me to answer these people?”

Job 14:1

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

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower and fades away; 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 are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

Job 8:10

Will they not teach you and tell you, And utter words from their heart?

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But You, O Lord, shall endure forever, And 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

Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah

Psalm 82:5

They do not know, nor do they understand; They walk about in darkness; All the foundations of the earth are unstable.

Psalm 90:4

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