For we are aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
Job 14:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last. More versionsKing 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 aliens and transients before you, as were all our ancestors; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no hope.
They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish forever without any regarding it.
for we are but of yesterday, and we know nothing, for our days on earth are but a shadow.
But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; your name endures to all generations.
You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever,
but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.
Yet you do not even know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
For “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,