Cross references

Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday and know nothing;

our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 8:9 BSB

Job 8:9 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 8 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to 1 Chronicles 29:15 (11 votes) and Psalm 144:4 (9 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 47 to Matthew 5.

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Which verses does Job 8:9 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  2. Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  3. Job 14:28 votes

    Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

  4. My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

  5. “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

  6. Job 7:65 votes

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

  7. Psalm 39:54 votes

    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

  8. Psalm 90:44 votes

    For in Your sight a thousand years are but a day that passes, or a watch of the night.

Which verses point to Job 8:9?

The 10 strongest of 16.