Job 14:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² comes up like a flower and withers, 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.

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 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 15:33

They will shake off their unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off their blossoms, like the olive tree.

Job 4:20

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

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; your name endures to all generations.

Psalm 102:5

Because of my loud groaning, my bones cling to my skin.

Psalm 144:4

They are like a breath; their 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

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

Psalm 39:7

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

Psalm 92:12

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

Psalm 92:7

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

Ecclesiastes 8:13

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.

James 4:14

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.

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,