Job 9:25

In 11 translations

BSB

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

KJV

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

WEB

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

ASV

Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.

LSV

My days have been swifter than a runner, || They have fled, they have not seen good,

YLT

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

DBY

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

DRC

My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good.

GNV

My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

JPS

Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.

LXXE

But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.

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Original-language editions

WLC

וְיָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־רָ֑ץ בָּֽ֝רְח֗וּ לֹא־רָא֥וּ טוֹבָֽה׃

LXX-Br

Ὁ δὲ βίος μου ἐστὶν ἐλαφρότερος δρομέως· ἀπέδρασαν, καὶ οὐκ εἴδοσαν.

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• Job 7:6–7My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope. Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.
• James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Psalms 90:9–10For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh. The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly…
• 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 39:11You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
• Psalms 89:47Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
• Esther 8:14The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.

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