Job 8:9

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.

2 Chronicles 10:6

Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon while he was alive, saying, “How do you advise me to answer this people?”

Job 14:1

“A mortal born of woman, is of few days and full of turmoil.

Job 14:2

Like a flower he comes up and withers; like a shadow he flees and does not stay.

Job 32:7

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

Job 7:6

My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle and come to an end without hope.

Job 8:10

Will they not teach you and tell you? Will they not bring forth words from their hearts?

Psalm 102:11

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and tossed me aside.

Psalm 102:12

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

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath— his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 39:5

“Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.

Psalm 82:5

They know nothing; they understand nothing— they walk about in darkness. All of earth’s foundations are shaken.

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in Your sight are like a day just passing by, or like a watch in the night.