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Job 8:9 Cross-References

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(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) nothing: Heb. not

Job 8:9 (KJV)

Commentary on Job 8:9

Bildad argues human brevity requires dependence on ancestral wisdom: 'For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.' The phrase 'of yesterday' (temol, תְּמוֹל) literally means 'yesterday'—humanity's brief individual lifespan provides insufficient time to discover truth independently. The admission 'we know nothing' is startlingly honest but serves Bildad's argument: individual ignorance necessitates trust in collective wisdom.The shadow metaphor (tsel, צֵל) appears throughout wisdom literature (Psalm 102:11, 144:4, Ecclesiastes 6:12) denoting transien...

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Cross-References for Job 8:9

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1 Chronicles 29:1510 votes

and foreigners

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Psalms 144:48 votes

Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

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Job 14:27 votes

and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow

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Psalms 102:115 votes

My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

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Genesis 47:94 votes

The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty 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 pilgrimage.

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Job 7:64 votes

and are spent without hope.

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Psalms 90:43 votes

like a watch in the night.

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Psalms 39:53 votes

you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath. Selah.,Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.,  הִנֵּה טְפָחוֹת נָתַתָּה יָמַי וְחֶלְדִּי כְאַיִן נֶגְדֶּךָ אַךְ כָּל־הֶבֶל כָּל־אָדָם נִצָּב סֶלָה׃ ‬,Behold, Thou hast made my days as hand-breadths; And mine age is as nothing before Thee; Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah,38:6 ἰδοὺ παλαιστὰς ἔθου τὰς ἡμέρας μου καὶ ἡ ὑπόστασίς μου ὡσεὶ οὐθὲν ἐνώπιόν σου πλὴν τὰ σύμπαντα ματαιότης πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ζῶν διάψαλμα,38:5 Behold, thou hast made my days old; and my existence is as nothing before thee: nay, every man living is altogether vanity. Pause.,,,,

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