Job 9:25

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Job 9:23–27 · Berean Standard Bible

23 When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

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

26 They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

27 If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’

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Cross-references

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.

Job 7:7

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

Esther 8:14

The 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.

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 39:11

You 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 89:47

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Psalms 90:9

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Psalms 90:10

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 away.

James 4:14

You 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.