Job 14:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

² He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

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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.

Job 14:2 Tagairtí Cros

1 Chronicles 29:15

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

Job 15:33

He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive tree.

Job 4:20

Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

Job 8:9

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

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

Psalm 102:12

But you, LORD, will abide forever; your renown endures to all generations.

Psalm 102:5

By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones stick to my skin.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

Psalm 37:2

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

Psalm 39:5

Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.* Selah.

Psalm 39:7

Now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in you.

Psalm 92:12

The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Levanon.

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evil-doers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

James 4:14

Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

1 Peter 1:24

For, *All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;