Job 14:2

English Standard Version 2016

He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

Cross References

1 Peter 1:24

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

Job 8:9

For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.

James 4:14

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.

Psalm 92:12

The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalm 92:7

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

Job 15:33

He will shake off his unripe grape like the vine, and cast off his blossom like the olive tree.

Psalm 37:2

For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 39:7

“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

Psalm 102:5

Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.