Job 8:9

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are [like] a shadow [just a breath or a vapor].

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 [of remaining].

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. Few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, and they have not reached the years that my fathers lived during the days of their pilgrimage.”

Job 7:6

“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle,
And are spent without hope.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a shadow that passes away.

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 [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]! Selah.

Psalm 90:4

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

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Summary

Job 8:9

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

We are but

Psalm 144:4

General references

Job 32:7

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