Job 8:9 - Revised Standard Version

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.

American Standard Version (1901)

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

Common English Bible

for we are only recently here and don’t know because our days on earth are a shadow.

Catholic Public Domain Version

(of course, we are but of yesterday and are ignorant that our days on earth are like a shadow,)

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)

Job 8:9 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are a 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 sojourning.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

2 Chronicles 10:6

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

Job 14:1

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 14:2

He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.

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 an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 82:5

They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.