Job 14:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

Job 15:33

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.

Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

Job 8:9

For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are eternal; and your name will never come to an end.

Psalm 102:5

Because of the voice of my sorrow, my flesh is wasted to the bone.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

Psalm 37:2

For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

Psalm 39:5

You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. Selah.

Psalm 39:7

And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.

Psalm 92:12

The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.

Psalm 92:7

When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

James 4:14

When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

1 Peter 1:24

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead: