Job 9:25

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

So my days are swifter than a runner; they flee, not seeing good.

Latin

Dies mei velociores fuerunt cursore; fugerunt, et non viderunt bonum.

Hebrew

English

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

Job answered Bildad by describing God's universal and legal power. His speech resembles a complex legal case.

It includes:

A summons and response (9:3, 14–16, 19b, 32).
The risk of proving himself guilty (9:20).
A "mediator" (9:33–34).
A question of accusation (9:12).
A legal sentence (9:22).
A declaration of guilt (9:28–30).

Job 7:6–7
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end without hope.
James 4:14
You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Psalm 90:9–10
For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
Esther 8:14
The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses, pressed on by the command of the king. And the edict was also issued in the citadel of Susa.
Psalm 89:47
Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
Psalm 39:5
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
Psalm 39:11
You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah