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Job 8:9 — (For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

we are but		Job 7:6; Gen 47:9; 1Ch 29:15; Psa 39:5; Psa 90:4; Psa 102:11; Psa 144:4
nothing		Heb. not.

Correlating Passages

we are but

	Job 7:6	My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
	Gen 47:9	And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
	1Ch 29:15	For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.
	Psa 39:5	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.
	Psa 90:4	For a thousand years in thy sight [are but] as yesterday when it is past, and [as] a watch in the night.
	Psa 102:11	My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
	Psa 144:4	Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 8:9," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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