Job 14:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth 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.

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 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 15:33

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive.

Job 4:20

Betwixt 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, Because our days upon earth are a shadow:)

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O LORD, shalt abide for ever; And thy memorial unto all generations.

Psalm 102:5

By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.

Psalm 39:5

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

Psalm 39:7

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

Psalm 92:12

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalm 92:7

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:

Ecclesiastes 8:13

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.

James 4:14

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.

1 Peter 1:24

For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth: