Job 14:2

A Conservative Version

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.

Cross References

1 Peter 1:24

Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,

Job 8:9

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

James 4:14

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

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.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

Psalm 92:12

A righteous man 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 flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

Job 4:20

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

Job 15:33

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

Psalm 37:2

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

Psalm 39:5

Behold, thou have made my days [as] handbreadths, and my life-time is as nothing before thee. Surely every man at his best condition is altogether vanity. Selah.

Psalm 39:7

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

Psalm 102:5

Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

Psalm 102:12

But thou, O LORD, will abide forever, and thy memorial to all generations.