“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.
Job 14:2 - The Scriptures 2009 He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue. 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 sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.
He shakes off his unripe grape like a vine, and throws off his blossom like an olive tree.
From morning till evening they are beaten down, they perish forever, with no one regarding.
for we are but of yesterday, and know not, because our days on earth are as a shadow.
My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.
But You, O יהוה, shall be enthroned forever, And the remembrance of You be to all generations.
Because of the sound of my sighing My bones have cleaved to my flesh.
See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.”
The righteous one flourishes like a palm tree, He grows like a cedar in Leḇanon.
When the wrong spring up like grass, And all the workers of wickedness blossom, It is for them to be destroyed forever.
But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.
when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –
because “All flesh is as grass, and all the esteem of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,