Job 14:2

Modern English Version

He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and does not continue.

Cross References

1 Peter 1:24

For “All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

Job 8:9

for we were born but yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.

James 4:14

whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is just a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

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 stand in reverence before God.

Psalm 92:12

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

Psalm 92:7

that though the wicked spring up like grass and though all the workers of iniquity flourish, they will be destroyed forever:

Job 4:20

They are broken in pieces from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

Job 15:33

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

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 as a few handbreadths, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man at his best is as a mere breath.”    Selah

Psalm 39:7

Now, O Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.

Psalm 102:5

Because of the sound of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.

Psalm 102:12

But You, O  Lord, shall endure forever, the remembrance of Your name to all generations.