Job 8:9
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 8
“(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)”Job 8:9
What Does Job 8:9 Mean?
Job 8:9 is found in the book of Job, chapter 8, verse 9 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 11 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (11)
These passages are connected to Job 8:9 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Job 14:2“He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”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.”Psalms 144:4“Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.”Job 38:12“Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place;”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.”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.”Ecclesiastes 6:12“For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?”Job 10:20“Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,”
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