Verse 9

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.
• Job 14:2 : 2 He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
• Ps 144:4 : 4 People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.
• Gen 47:9 : 9 Jacob said to Pharaoh,“All the years of my travels are 130. All the years of my life have been few and painful; the years of my travels are not as long as those of my ancestors.”
• Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are coming to an end, and I am withered like grass.
• Job 7:6 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.
• Ps 39:5 : 5 Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)
• Ps 90:4 : 4 Yes, in your eyes a thousand years are like yesterday that quickly passes, or like one of the divisions of the nighttime.