For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Job 14:2 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees also like a shadow and continues not. American Standard Version (1901) He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. Common English Bible Like a flower, we bloom, then wither, flee like a shadow, and don’t last. ( Catholic Public Domain Version He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state. |
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.
(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.)
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
But thou, O Lord, shalt endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Behold, thou hast made my days as a handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: