Job 14:2 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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 Krydshenvisninger

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Job 15:33

He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.

Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.

Job 8:9

for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.

Psalm 102:5

Because of my loud groaning my bones cleave to my flesh.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 37:2

For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 39:7

“And now, Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in thee.

Psalm 92:12

The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalm 92:7

that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

James 4:14

whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Peter 1:24

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