Job 9:25

²³ When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

²⁴ The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

²⁶ They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

²⁷ If I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’

Les gjerne versene rundt også, for sammenhengen gir ofte mer enn ett vers alene.

Sammenlign

ÅB: Mine dager har vært hastigere enn en løper; de er bortflyktet uten å ha sett noe godt;
OTB: "Mine dager er raskere enn en løper;
de skynder seg bort, de ser ikke noe godt.
B1930: Mine dager har vært hastigere enn en løper; de er bortflyktet uten å ha sett noget godt;

BSB: My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
KJV: Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
WEB: “Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
ASV: Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good,
DARBY: And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.
BLB: So my days are swifter than a runner; they flee, not seeing good.

Job 7:6–7
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
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James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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Psalms 90:9–10
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
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Psalms 39:5
You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
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Esther 8:14
The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.
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Psalms 89:47
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
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Psalms 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah
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