Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

swifter   Job 7:6,7; Est 8:14
a post   Rotz, a runner, or courier; some of whom are said to go 150 miles in less than 24 hours.
they flee away   Psa 39:5,11; Psa 89:47; Psa 90:9,10; Jam 4:14
Correlating Passages
swifter
Job 7:6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
Job 7:7 O remember that my life [is] wind: mine eye shall no more see good.
Est 8:14 [So] the posts that rode upon mules [and] camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king's commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.
they flee away
Psa 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.
Psa 39:11 When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man [is] vanity. Selah.
Psa 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Psa 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale [that is told].
Psa 90:10 The days of our years [are] threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength [they be] fourscore years, yet [is] their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
Jam 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.

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Scott, Thomas. "Job 9:25," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Job/9/25.html>.

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