New King James Version
Job 9:25
25“Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no 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 Living Translation (NLT)“My life passes more swiftly than a runner. It flees away without a glimpse of happiness.
Context of Job 9:25
23If the scourge slays suddenly, He laughs at the plight of the innocent. 24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, who else could it be? “Now my days are swifter than a runner; They flee away, they see no good. 26They pass by like swift ships, Like an eagle swooping on its prey. 27If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face and wear a smile,’
Read all of Job 9Job 9:25 word by word
וְיָמַ֣י קַ֭לּוּ מִנִּי־רָ֑ץ בָּֽ֝רְח֗וּ לֹא־רָא֥וּ טוֹבָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 9:25
- Job 7:6“My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
- Esther 8:14The couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s command. And the decree was issued in Shushan the citadel.
- Job 9:24The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If it is not He, who else could it be?
- Psalms 39:5Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
- Psalms 89:47Remember how short my time is; For what futility have You created all the children of men?
- Psalms 90:9For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh.
- James 4:14whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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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