For we are foreigners and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
Job 14:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees also like a shadow and continues not. American Standard Version (1901) He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Common English Bible Like a flower, we bloom, then wither, flee like a shadow, and don’t last. ( Catholic Public Domain Version He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. |
For we are foreigners and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.
They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish for ever while no one notices.
since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.
However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.
Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring #– #what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes.
For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,