Job 14:2

God's Word

He comes up like a flower; then he withers. He is like a fleeting shadow; he doesn’t stay long.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

To you we are all like our ancestors— foreigners without permanent homes. Our days are as fleeting as shadows on the ground. There’s no hope ⌞for them⌟.

Job 15:33

He will drop his unripened grapes like a vine and throw off his blossoms like an olive tree

Job 4:20

From morning to evening, they are shattered. They will disappear forever without anyone paying attention.

Job 8:9

We have only been around since yesterday, and we know nothing. Our days on earth are only a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a shadow that is getting longer, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, remain forever. You are remembered throughout every generation.

Psalm 102:5

I am nothing but skin and bones because of my loud groans.

Psalm 144:4

Humans are like a breath of air. Their life span is like a fleeting shadow.

Psalm 37:2

They will quickly dry up like grass and wither away like green plants.

Psalm 39:5

Indeed, you have made the length of my days ⌞only⌟ a few inches. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind. Selah

Psalm 39:7

And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? My hope is in you!

Psalm 92:12

Righteous people flourish like palm trees and grow tall like the cedars in Lebanon.

Psalm 92:7

that wicked people sprout like grass and all troublemakers blossom ⌞like flowers⌟, only to be destroyed forever.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well for the wicked. They will not live any longer. Their lives are like shadows, because they don’t fear God.

James 4:14

You don’t know what will happen tomorrow. What is life? You are a mist that is seen for a moment and then disappears.

1 Peter 1:24

“All people are like grass, and all their beauty is like a flower of the field. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,