Job 8:9
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(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)

we are but.

Job 7:6 My days have passed more swiftly than the web is cut by the weaver, and are consumed without any hope.

Genesis 47:9 He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil, and they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Psalm 39:5 Behold thou hast made my days measurable. and my substance is as nothing before thee. And indeed all things are vanity: every man living.

Psalm 90:4 For a thousand years in thy sight are as yesterday, which is past. And as a watch in the night,

Psalm 102:11 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

nothing.

Context
Bildad: Job Should Repent
8For inquire of the former generation, and search diligently into the memory of the fathers: 9(For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)10And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.…
Cross References
2 Chronicles 10:6
He took counsel with the ancients, who had stood before his father Solomon, while he yet lived, saying: What counsel give you to me, that I may answer the people?

Job 8:10
And they shall teach thee: they shall speak to thee, and utter words out of their hearts.

Job 14:2
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Job 32:7
For I hoped that greater age would speak, and that a multitude of years would teach wisdom.

Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

Lexicon
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

we [were born]
אֲ֭נַחְנוּ (’ă·naḥ·nū)
Pronoun - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 587: We

yesterday
תְמ֣וֹל (ṯə·mō·wl)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 8543: Ago, a, time since, yesterday, day before yesterday

and know
נֵדָ֑ע (nê·ḏā‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3045: To know

nothing;
וְלֹ֣א (wə·lō)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

our days
יָמֵ֣ינוּ (yā·mê·nū)
Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

on
עֲלֵי־ (‘ă·lê-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

earth
אָֽרֶץ׃ (’ā·reṣ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 776: Earth, land

are but a shadow.
צֵ֖ל (ṣêl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6738: A shadow


Additional Translations
For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)

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

(for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

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

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

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

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

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