Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Our life is short, we know nothing at all; we pass like shadows across the earth. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow) we are but. Job 7:6 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope. Genesis 47:9 He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers. 1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay. Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living. Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night, Psalm 102:11 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass. Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. nothing. Context Bildad: Job Should Repent…8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: 9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.… Cross References 2 Chronicles 10:6 He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people? Job 8:10 And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts. Job 14:2 Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. Job 32:7 For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom. Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow. Jump to Previous Born Earth Shade Shadow YesterdayJump to Next Born Earth Shade Shadow YesterdayLinks Job 8:9 NIVJob 8:9 NLT Job 8:9 ESV Job 8:9 NASB Job 8:9 Bible Apps Job 8:9 Biblia Paralela Job 8:9 Chinese Bible Job 8:9 French Bible Job 8:9 German Bible Alphabetical: a and are as Because born but days earth for know nothing of on only our shadow we were yesterday OT Poetry: Job 8:9 For we are but of yesterday (Jb) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |