Job 8:9

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for we are but of yesterday, and know not, because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then Sovereign Reḥaḇ‛am consulted the elders who stood before his father Shelomoh while he still lived, saying, “What do you advise me to answer these people?”

Job 14:1

“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled.

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, ‘Days should speak, and many years should teach wisdom.’

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without expectancy.

Job 8:10

Do they not teach you, speak to you, and bring forth 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 יהוה, shall be enthroned forever, And the remembrance of You be to all generations.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.”

Psalm 82:5

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

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in Your eyes Are like yesterday that has past, Or like a watch in the night.