Job 8:9 — Compare All Translations

English (YLT) 1898 Young's Literal Translation by Robert Young

(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)

English ASV

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

English Amplified

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.

English Amplified Classic Bible 1987

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.

English Berean Standard Bible (BSB) 2025

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

English CSB 2017 - Christian Standard Bible

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.

English Darby 1890 : Public Domain

For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.

English EASY 2024

We have not lived for very long, so we do not know very much. Our lives are like shadows that quickly disappear.

English ERV 2006 - Only For Website

It seems as though we were born yesterday. We are too young to know anything. Our days on earth are very short, like a shadow.

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

English GNT (Good News Translation)

Our life is short, we know nothing at all; we pass like shadows across the earth.

English God's Word - GW 1995

We have only been around since yesterday, and we know nothing. Our days on earth are only a fleeting shadow.

English HCSB 2004 - Copyrighted Only For Website

since we were [born only] yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.

English KJV 1611

(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

English LSB

For we are only of yesterday and know nothing, Because our days on earth are but a shadow.

English MEV 2014 (Modern English Version)

for we were born but yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

English NASB (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)

"For we are only of yesterday and know nothing, Because our days on earth are as a shadow.

English NASU 1989 - New American Standard Update - Only for Website

(As we are but of yesterday and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are but a shadow),

English NET Bible - 2005 (New English Translation)

For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

English NIRV 1996 - Copyrighted only for Website

After all, we were born only yesterday. So we don't know anything. Our days on this earth are like a shadow that disappears.

English NIV

for we were born only yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

English NKJ 1982

For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.

English NLT

For we were born but yesterday and know so little. Our days on earth are as transient as a shadow.

English NRSV 1989 - Only for website

for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.

English RSV (Revised Standard Version)

for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

English TL (The Living Bible) (1971)

for we were born but yesterday and know so little; our days here on earth are as transient as shadows.

English Tyndale 1537

Namely, that we are but of yesterday, and consider not, that our days upon earth are but a very shadow.

Job 8:9 — Compare Translations