A moment in scripture
Job 9:25
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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
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The surrounding passage
- Job 9:23
If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
- Job 9:24
The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?
- Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
- Job 9:27
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.