9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
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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.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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…
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