For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 14:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 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 strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive.
Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever; And thy memorial unto all generations.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And mine age is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. Selah
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: