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

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  • WEB World English Bible

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

  • KJV King James Version

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

  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    Now my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away, they see no good.

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Cross-references (7)

Passages linked to Job 9:25 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.

  • Job 7:6-7 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope. Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.
  • James 4:14 Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
  • Psalms 90:9-10 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh. The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.
  • Esther 8:14 So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.
  • Psalms 39:5 Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”
  • Psalms 39:11 When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”
  • Psalms 89:47 Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

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Explain this verse (16 sources)

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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a…

Job 9:25 Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Ver. 25. Now my days are swifter than a post, &c.] Not my prosperous days only (as Broughton glosseth), but the whole course of my life; the vanity whereof Job expresseth by many similitudes; and here search is made into three of the four elements, earth, water, and air, to find out a fit one. What is swifter upon earth than a post, who rides without stop or stay, and spares for no horse flesh? indeed, he taketh some time to rest in; but so doth not man’s life; it is ever in motion, and every moment we yield somewhat to death. Animantis cuiusque vita est fuga, saith the philosopher, our last day stands, the rest run. Cum crescit vita, decrescit, to live is but to lie a-dying (Seneca).

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They flee away] As David fled from the face of Absalom, Psa 3:1; as Brentius was advised by that senator of Hala to flee for his life, cito, citius, citissime, with all possible speed, since they were at hand that sought it. See 1Sa 19:11; 1Sa 19:18.

They see no good] But are few, and with all evil, Gen 47:9 Job 14:1. {See Trapp on "Gen 47:9"} {See Trapp on "Job 14:1"} Some good days Job had had, but they were so soon over (and his present pressure so great) that he was scarce aware of them, nor could take the comfort of them now; the Epicurians indeed held that a man might be cheerful amidst the most exquisite torments, ex praeteritarum voluptatum recordatione, by the remembrance of those pleasures and delights that formerly he had enjoyed (Cic. de Fin. I. 2; Sen. de Benef. 1. 4. c. 22). Job held this but a slight comfort; his care was in prosperity how to make the best use of it; his thoughts ran upon the uncertainty of all creature comforts, that he might hang loose to them, and hold them no otherwise than a child doth a bird in his hand.

John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain What he had said of the calamities which God…
Matthew Henry 1710 · Public Domain Job here grows more and more querulous, and does…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain They are passed away as the swift ships,.... Those…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Now - What he had said of the calamities…
Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 25. Swifter than a post] מני רץ minni…
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Job 9:25. Now my days — The days of…
Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Now my days are swifter than a post -…
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain Good, of late. Hebrew, "they see no good."
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain a post--a courier. In the wide Persian empire such…
Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain Second section, in strophes of four, three, and four…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 25. Now my days] Better, and my days—under the…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (25) Swifter than a post.—The runner, with his messages…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Now my days are swifter than a post. Life…
The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain Now my days are swifter than a post .…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 My days are swifter than a running messenger

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