God’s Word Translation
Job 9:25
25“My days go by more quickly than a runner. They sprint away. They don’t see anything good.
Job 9:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
- New International Version (NIV)“My days are swifter than a runner; they fly away without a glimpse of joy.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good.
Context of Job 9:25
23When a sudden disaster brings death, he makes fun of the despair of innocent people. 24The earth is handed over to the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If he isn’t the one ⌞doing this⌟, who is? “My days go by more quickly than a runner. They sprint away. They don’t see anything good. 26They pass by quickly like boats made from reeds, like an eagle swooping down on its prey. 27⌞Even⌟ if I say, ‘I will forget my complaining; I will change my expression and smile,’
Read all of Job 9Job 9:25 word by word
וְיָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־רָ֑ץ בָּֽ֝רְח֗וּ לֹא־רָא֥וּ טוֹבָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 9:25
- Job 7:6My days go swifter than a weaver’s shuttle. They are spent without hope.
- Esther 8:14The messengers rode the king’s fastest horses. They left quickly, in keeping with the king’s command. The decree was issued also in the fortress of Susa.
- Job 9:24The earth is handed over to the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If he isn’t the one ⌞doing this⌟, who is?
- Psalms 39:5Indeed, you have made the length of my days ⌞only⌟ a few inches. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Selah
- Psalms 89:47Remember how short my life is! Have you created Adam’s descendants for no reason?
- Psalms 90:9Indeed, all our days slip away because of your fury. We live out our years like one ⌞long⌟ sigh.
- James 4:14You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears.
Commentaries on Job 9:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25Swifter than a post - רץ מני minni rats, than a runner. The light-footed messenger or courier who carries messages from place to place. They flee away - The Chaldee says, My days are swifter than the shadow of a flying bird. So swiftly do they flee away that I cannot discern them; and when past they cannot be recalled. There is a sentiment like this in Virgil, Geor. lib. iii., ver. 284: - Sed Fugit interea, Cubit Irreparabile tempus! - "But in the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25Now my days are swifter than a post - Than a courier, runner, or racer, רוּץ rûts Vulgate, cursore; Septuagint, ́ dromeōs a racer. The word is not unfrequently applied to the runners or couriers, that carried royal commands in ancient times. It is applied to the mounted couriers of the Persians who carried the royal edicts to the distant provinces, Esther 3:13, Esther 3:15; Esther 8:14, and to the body-guard and royal messengers of Saul and of David, 1…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 25-35Verses 25-35 What little need have we of pastimes, and what great need to redeem time, when it runs on so fast towards eternity! How vain the enjoyments of time, which we may quite lose while yet time continues! The remembrance of having done our duty will be pleasing afterwards; so will not the remembrance of having got worldly wealth, when it is all lost and gone. Job's complaint of God, as one that could not be appeased and would not relent, was the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-35Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case. It includes: A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32). The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20). A "mediator" (9:33–34). A question of accusation (9:12). A legal sentence (9:22). A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. a post--a courier. In the wide Persian empire such couriers, on dromedaries or on foot, were employed to carry the royal commands to the distant provinces (Es 3:13, 15; 8:14). "My days" are not like the slow caravan, but the fleet post. The "days" are themselves poetically said to "see no good," instead of Job in them (1Pe 3:10).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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