(For we are but [a]of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our days upon earth are but a shadow)

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Footnotes

  1. Job 8:9 Meaning, that it is not enough to have the experience of ourselves, but to be confirmed by the examples of them that went before us.

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

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Man is like to vanity; his days are like a shadow that vanisheth.

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They are like a breath;(A)
    their days are like a fleeting shadow.(B)

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