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,’
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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.
- 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;
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 7:6–7
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
Read in contextJames 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.
Read in contextPsalms 90:9–10
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
Read in contextPsalms 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
Read in contextEsther 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.
Read in contextPsalms 89:47
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
Read in contextPsalms 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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