Devine Scripture

Job 8:9

Job chapter 8 · verse 9 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.8For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out

v.9This passage

v.10Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart?

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 14:2

    He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • Job 7:6

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

  • Psalms 144:4

    Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • 1 Chronicles 29:15

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

  • 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.

  • Psalms 39:5

    Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah