Job 8:9

WEB

⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

KJV

⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

BSB

⁹For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

FBV

⁹Our days on earth fade as quickly as a passing shadow.

Extra References

1 Chronicles 29:15

¹⁵For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

Psalms 144:4

⁴Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Job 14:2

²He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

Psalms 102:11

¹¹My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

⁹Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Job 7:6

⁶My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Psalms 90:4

⁴For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

Psalms 39:5

⁵Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.