Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Cross-reference
Job 7:6 uses the same 'swifter than a weaver's shuttle' imagery — both describe life's fleeting, hopeless nature.
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 continues the same speech, lamenting 'are not my days few?'—a direct thematic continuation of life's brevity.
Job 14:1 echoes this lament: 'born of woman, few of days' — reinforcing the brevity of life Job describes.
Job 14:2 uses flower and shadow imagery to depict life's transience, paralleling the swift runner metaphor here.
Job 17:11 continues the theme: 'My days are past, my plans broken' — lamenting the end of life's swift course.
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 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 compares our years to a passing tale, emphasizing life's swift passage—parallel to Job's days that flee away.
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.