Job 8:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam took counsel with the older men who had attended his father Solomon while he was still alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Job 14:2

comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

Job 32:7

I said, ‘Let days speak and many years teach wisdom.’

Job 7:6

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

Job 8:10

Will they not teach you and tell you and utter words out of their understanding?

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; your name endures to all generations.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands 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 or like a watch in the night.