Job 9:25

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

Cross-reference

Job 7:6 Parallel

Job 7:6 uses the same 'swifter than a weaver's shuttle' imagery — both describe life's fleeting, hopeless nature.

Job 7:7 Parallel

Job 7:7 cries that life is wind and sees no good — mirroring Job 9:25's 'flee away, see no good' theme.

Job 10:20 Parallel

Job 10:20 continues the same speech, lamenting 'are not my days few?'—a direct thematic continuation of life's brevity.

Job 14:1 Parallel

Job 14:1 echoes this lament: 'born of woman, few of days' — reinforcing the brevity of life Job describes.

Job 14:2 Parallel

Job 14:2 uses flower and shadow imagery to depict life's transience, paralleling the swift runner metaphor here.

Job 17:11 Parallel

Job 17:11 continues the theme: 'My days are past, my plans broken' — lamenting the end of life's swift course.

Psalm 39:5 Parallel

Psalm 39:5 laments that man's days are a handbreadth and vanity — a parallel meditation on life's brevity like Job 9:25.

Psalm 89:47 Parallel

Psalm 89:47 directly laments 'how short my time is' and questions life's vanity, matching Job's complaint about days that flee and see no good.

Psalm 90:9 Parallel

Psalm 90:9 compares our years to a passing tale, emphasizing life's swift passage—parallel to Job's days that flee away.

James 4:14 Parallel

James 4:14 calls life a vapor that appears briefly then vanishes—a NT parallel to Job's complaint about days that flee and see no good.

Isaiah 38:12 uses tent and weaver imagery to describe life cut short, similar to Job's fleeting days metaphor.