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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Job 8:9 - 8:9
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of yesterday - that is, a recent race. We know nothing as compared with them because of the brevity of our lives; so even Jacob (Gen 47:9). Knowledge consisted then in the results of observation, embodied in poetical proverbs, and handed down by tradition. Longevity gave the opportunity of wider observation.
a shadow - (Psa 144:4; 1Ch 29:15).