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Job 14:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

He blossoms like a flower, then withers; he flees like a shadow and does not last.

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For All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like a flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing. Our days on earth are but a shadow.

Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring #– #what your life will be! For you are like vapour that appears for a little while, then vanishes.

For we are foreigners and temporary residents in your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.

They are smashed to pieces from dawn to dusk; they perish for ever while no one notices.

He will be like a vine that drops its unripe grapes and like an olive tree that sheds its blossoms.