Job 8:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Job 8:9 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Psalms 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 8-19)

Bildad here discourses very well on the sad catastrophe of hypocrites and evil-doers and the fatal period of all their hopes and joys. He will not be so bold as to say with Eliphaz that none that were righteous were ever cut off thus (Job 4:7); yet he takes it for granted that God, in the course of his providence, does ordinarily bring wicked men, who seemed pious and were prosperous, to shame and…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

8-9. The sages of the olden time reached an age beyond those of Job’s time (see on Job 42:16), and therefore could give the testimony of a fuller experience.