Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

“For we are only of yesterday and know nothing,
Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are but a shadow.

International Standard Version

Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow.

A Conservative Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

Darby Translation

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.

Julia Smith Translation

(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth [are] a shadow.

Modern King James verseion

for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

NET Bible

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

New Heart English Bible

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

The Emphasized Bible

For, of yesterday, are, we, and cannot know, for, a shadow, are our days upon earth:

Webster

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

World English Bible

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

Youngs Literal Translation

(For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For we are but of yesterday
תּמל תּמול 
T@mowl 
Usage: 22

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

References

Context Readings

Bildad's First Response To Job

8 "For inquire, please, of bygone ages, and consider what the fathers have searched out. 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 utter words out of their understanding?

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning."

Job 7:6

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Job 14:2

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 90:4

For a thousand years in your sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night.

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