Job 9:25 KJV — MannaFest

Job 9:25

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

YLT

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

DBT

And my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good.

About this book

Old Testament

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Job — The canonical wisdom-literature interrogation of undeserved suffering. A prose frame enclosing three cycles of dialogue, a late Elihu interrupt, and a whirlwind theophany that does not answer the question — it relativizes it.

Author: Anonymous. Talmudic tradition names Moses (Bava Batra 14b); internal features (patriarchal setting, no Mosaic Law reference, Job sacrificing as family head, *qesitah* currency of Gen 33:19) suggest patriarchal-era composition or at least tradition-origin.
Date: Traditional: patriarchal period, c. 2000–1800 BC. Critical proposals scatter across pre-exilic to post-exilic. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer takes the position.

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19 verses on the floor

Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Job 7:6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Psalms 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

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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; "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).

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

): " My days (that is, all my good days) are gone, never to return, gone of a sudden, gone ere I was aware. Never did any courier that went express" (like Cushi and Ahimaaz) "with good tidings make such haste as all my comforts did from me.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

13 If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him. Bildad began with a rebuke to Job for talking so much, ch. viii. Job makes no answer to that, though it would have been easy enough to retort it upon himself; but in what he next lays down as his principle, that God never perverts judgment, Job agrees with him: I know it is so of a truth,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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