Job 14:2 - The Scriptures 2009

² He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Job 14:2 Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

“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 15:33

He shakes off his unripe grape like a vine, and throws off his blossom like an olive tree.

Job 4:20

From morning till evening they are beaten down, they perish forever, with no one regarding.

Job 8:9

for we are but of yesterday, and know not, because our days on earth are as a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But You, O יהוה, shall be enthroned forever, And the remembrance of You be to all generations.

Psalm 102:5

Because of the sound of my sighing My bones have cleaved to my flesh.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.

Psalm 37:2

For they soon wither like grass, And fade like green plants.

Psalm 39:5

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.”

Psalm 39:7

“And now, יהוה, what do I wait for? My expectancy is in You.

Psalm 92:12

The righteous one flourishes like a palm tree, He grows like a cedar in Leḇanon.

Psalm 92:7

When the wrong spring up like grass, And all the workers of wickedness blossom, It is for them to be destroyed forever.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

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.

James 4:14

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 –

1 Peter 1:24

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,