Job 9:25 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁵Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Job 9:25 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Job 7:6-7
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope. …
Psalms 90:9-10
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told. …
Psalms 39:11
When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
Psalms 89:47
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

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Commentary

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

(vv. 25-35)

Job here grows more and more querulous, and does not conclude this chapter with such reverent expressions of God’s wisdom and justice as he began with. Those that indulge a complaining humour know not to what indecencies, nay, to what impieties, it will hurry them. The beginning of that strife with God is as the letting forth of water; therefore leave it off before it be meddled with. When we are…

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

(vv. 25)

25. a post--a courier. In the wide Persian empire such couriers, on dromedaries or on foot, were employed to carry the royal commands to the distant provinces (Es 3:13, 15; 8:14). “My days” are not like the slow caravan, but the fleet post. The “days” are themselves poetically said to “see no good,” instead of Job in them (1Pe 3:10).