KJV King James Version
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
WEB World English Bible
“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,
ASV American Standard Version
Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,
Surrounding context — Job 9
22 This [is] one [thing], therefore I said [it], He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.
23 If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, [and] who [is] he?
25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
26 They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle [that] hasteth to the prey.
27 If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort [myself]:
28 I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.
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James 4:14Whereas 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 7:6-7My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.Psalm 90:9-10For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].Psalm 39:11When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.Esther 8:14[So] the posts that rode upon mules [and] camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.Psalm 39:5Behold, thou hast made my days [as] an handbreadth; and mine age [is] as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state [is] altogether vanity. Selah.Psalm 89:47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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