Job 8:9

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Job 8:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 Though your beginnings were modest, your latter days will flourish.

8 Please inquire of past generations and consider the discoveries of their fathers.

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

10 Will they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?

11 Does papyrus grow where there is no marsh? Do reeds flourish without water?

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Job 7:6

My 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.”

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Psalms 39:5

You, 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 90:4

For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

Psalms 102:11

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Psalms 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.