Job 14:2

New Century Version

We grow up like flowers and then dry up and die. We are like a passing shadow that does not last.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

We are like foreigners and strangers, as our ancestors were. Our time on earth is like a shadow. There is no hope.

Job 15:33

They will be like a vine whose grapes are pulled off before they are ripe, like an olive tree that loses its blossoms.

Job 4:20

Between dawn and sunset many people are broken to pieces; without being noticed, they die and are gone forever.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a passing shadow; I am like dried grass.

Psalm 102:12

But, Lord, you rule forever, and your fame goes on and on.

Psalm 102:5

Because of my grief, my skin hangs on my bones.

Psalm 144:4

People are like a breath; their lives are like passing shadows.

Psalm 37:2

because like the grass, they will soon dry up. Like green plants, they will soon die away.

Psalm 39:5

You have given me only a short life; my lifetime is like nothing to you. Everyone’s life is only a breath.Selah

Psalm 39:7

“So, Lord, what hope do I have? You are my hope.

Psalm 92:12

But good people will grow like palm trees; they will be tall like the cedars of Lebanon.

Psalm 92:7

Wicked people grow like the grass. Evil people seem to do well, but they will be destroyed forever.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

I also know it will not go well for evil people, because they do not honor God. Like a shadow, they will not last.

James 4:14

But you do not know what will happen tomorrow! Your life is like a mist. You can see it for a short time, but then it goes away.

1 Peter 1:24

The Scripture says, “All people are like the grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass dies and the flowers fall,