Job 9:25 “My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.”

Job 9:25

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

World English Bible

“Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.

American Standard Version

Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good.

Geneva Bible 1599

My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing.

Darby Translation

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

Young's Literal Translation

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

Bible in Basic English

My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.

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Cross references

“swifter”

Esther 8:14 Job 7:6 Job 7:7

Esther 8:14 · BSB

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.

Job 7:6 · BSB

My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.

Job 7:7 · BSB

Remember that my life is but a breath. My eyes will never again see happiness.

“they flee away”

James 4:14 Psalm 39:5 Psalm 39:11 Psalm 89:47 Psalm 90:9 Psalm 90:10

James 4:14 · BSB

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.

Psalm 39:5 · BSB

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

Psalm 39:11 · BSB

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

Psalm 89:47 · BSB

Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!

Psalm 90:9 · BSB

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Psalm 90:10 · BSB

The length of our days is seventy years— or eighty if we are strong— yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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

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

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