Job 8:9

Bildad's First Response To Job

⁸ “Please inquire of past generations,
And consider the things searched out by their fathers.
⁹ “For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.
¹⁰ “Will they not teach you and tell you,
And bring forth words from their minds?

Have No Knowledge

On Earth

Job

No

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, and tenants, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.

Genesis 47:9

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

Job 7:6

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And come to an end without hope.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthened shadow,
And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a passing shadow.

Job 14:2

“Like a flower he comes forth and withers.
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.

Psalm 39:5

“Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths,
And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight;
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Selah.

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in Your sight
Are like yesterday when it passes by,
Or as a watch in the night.