Job 14:2

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are only foreigners living here on earth for a while, just as our ancestors were. And we will soon be gone, like a shadow that suddenly disappears.

Job 15:33

Or like vineyards or orchards whose blossoms and unripe fruit drop to the ground.

Job 4:20

Born after daybreak, you die before nightfall and disappear for ever.

Job 8:9

Our own time has been short, like a fading shadow, and we know very little.

Psalm 102:11

My life fades like a shadow at the end of day and withers like grass.

Psalm 102:12

Our LORD, you are King for ever and will always be famous.

Psalm 102:5

My groaning never stops, and my bones can be seen through my skin.

Psalm 144:4

We disappear like a breath; we last no longer than a faint shadow.

Psalm 37:2

They will soon disappear like grass without rain.

Psalm 39:5

You made my life short, so brief that the time means nothing to you. “Human life is but a breath,

Psalm 39:7

“What am I waiting for? I depend on you, Lord!

Psalm 92:12

Good people will prosper like palm trees, and they will grow strong like the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalm 92:7

Though the wicked sprout and spread like grass, they will be pulled up by their roots.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

but no one who sins and rejects God will prosper or live very long.

James 4:14

What do you know about tomorrow? How can you be so sure about your life? It is nothing more than mist that appears for only a little while before it disappears.

1 Peter 1:24

The Scriptures say, “Humans wither like grass, and their glory fades like wild flowers. Grass dries up, and flowers fall to the ground.