Job 14:2 - English Standard Version 2016

² He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² He comes forth like a flower and withers; he flees also like a shadow and continues not.

American Standard Version (1901)

² He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Common English Bible

² Like a flower, we bloom, then wither, flee like a shadow, and don’t last. (

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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

² Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Job 14:2 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

Job 15:33

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

Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are beaten to pieces; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, O Lord, are enthroned forever; you are remembered throughout all generations.

Psalm 102:5

Because of my loud groaning my bones cling to my flesh.

Psalm 144:4

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

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 a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah

Psalm 39:7

“And now, O Lord, for what do I wait? My hope is in you.

Psalm 92:12

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

Psalm 92:7

that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;

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 fear before God.

James 4:14

yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.

1 Peter 1:24

for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,