Job 8:9 · KJV
“(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}”
— Job 8:9
For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
Shall not they teach thee, {and} tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
Job 8 — Context
Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.
8For enquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:
9(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}
10Shall not they teach thee, {and} tell thee, and utter words out of their heart?
11Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?
Cross References
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}
Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalms 102:11
My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}
Psalms 90:4
For a thousand years in thy sight {are but} as yesterday when it is past, and {as} a watch in the night. {when...: or, when he hath passed them}