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Job 8:9

The Scriptures 2009

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

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


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


He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue.


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


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


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.”


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


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.”


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?”


Do they not teach you, speak to you, and bring forth words from their heart?


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


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


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


But You, O יהוה, shall be enthroned forever, And the remembrance of You be to all generations.





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