Job 8:9

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)nothing: Heb. not

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

For we [are] of yesterday, and we do not know, || For our days [are] a shadow on earth.

YLT

(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)

DBY

For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.

DRC

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow:)

GNV

(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)

JPS

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

LXXE

(for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

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WLC

כִּֽי־תְמ֣וֹל אֲ֭נַחְנוּ וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע כִּ֤י צֵ֖ל יָמֵ֣ינוּ עֲלֵי־אָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

Χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν, καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν· σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ὁ βίος·

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• 1 Chronicles 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
• Psalms 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
• Psalms 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
• Job 7:6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
• Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”
• Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
• Psalms 90:4For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

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