Job 14:2 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

² He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees also like a shadow and continues not.

American Standard Version (1901)

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Common English Bible

² Like a flower, we bloom, then wither, flee like a shadow, and don’t last. (

Catholic Public Domain Version

² He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.

Job 14:2 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

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 15:33

He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.

Job 4:20

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish for ever while no one notices.

Job 8:9

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

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.

James 4:14

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.

1 Peter 1:24

For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory   like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,