Job 14:2

Tree of Life Version

Like a flower he comes up and withers; like a shadow he flees and does not stay.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are sojourners before You, mere transients like our fathers. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, without security.

Job 15:33

He will shake off his unripe grapes like a vine, and cast off his blossoms like an olive tree.

Job 4:20

From morning until evening they are beaten into pieces— unnoticed, they perish forever.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

because of Your indignation and wrath, for You have picked me up and tossed me aside.

Psalm 102:12

My days are like a lengthening shadow, and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:5

My heart is stricken and withered like grass, so that I even forget to eat my bread.

Psalm 144:4

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

Psalm 37:2

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

Psalm 39:5

“Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.

Psalm 39:7

Everyone goes about as a mere phantom. Surely they are making an uproar in vain, heaping up stuff— yet not knowing who will gather it.

Psalm 92:12

My eye can gaze on those lying in wait for me. My ears hear about evildoers rising up against me.

Psalm 92:7

A brutish man does not know, nor does a fool understand.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it will not go well with the wicked, and he will not lengthen his days like a shadow, because he does not fear God.

James 4:14

Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

1 Peter 1:24

For, “All humanity is like grass, And all its glory like a wildflower. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,