Job 9:25

Verse Job 9:25. Swifter than a post] מני רץ minni rats, than a runner. The light-footed messenger or courier who carries messages from place to place.

They flee away] The Chaldee says, My days are swifter than the shadow of a flying bird. So swiftly do they flee away that I cannot discern them; and when past they cannot be recalled. There is a sentiment like this in VIRGIL, Geor. lib. iii., ver. 284: -

Sed FUGIT interea, CUBIT IRREPARABILE tempus!__

"But in the meanwhile time flies! irreparable time flies away!"