For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Job 14:2 - Revised Standard Version CI He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues 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 all our fathers were; our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
He will shake off his unripe grape, like the vine, and cast off his blossom, like the olive tree.
Between morning and evening they are destroyed; they perish for ever without any regarding it.
for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
But thou, O Lord, art enthroned for ever; thy name endures to all generations.
For they will soon fade like the grass, and wither like the green herb.
Behold, thou hast made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in thy sight. Surely every man stands as a mere breath! Selah
The righteous flourish like the palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
that, though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction for ever,
but it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
whereas you do not know about tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,