Verse 2

He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and consider not that our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe.)
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all fleshe is as grasse, and all the glorie of man, is as the flowre of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flowre falleth away:
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The same voyce spake: Nowe crye. And the prophete aunswered, What shall I crye? That all fleshe is grasse, and that all the goodlinesse therof is as the floure of the fielde. 7 The grasse is withered, the floure falleth away, for the breath of the Lord bloweth vpon them: of a trueth the people are grasse. 8 The grasse withereth, and the floure fadeth away: yet the worde of our God endureth for euer.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 The dayes of man are as the dayes of an hearbe: he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde. 16 For the winde passeth ouer it, and it is no more seene: and the place therof knoweth it no more.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes fade away lyke a shadowe: and I am wythered lyke grasse.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 Agayne, the riche, in that he is made lowe: Because as the flowre of the grasse he shall passe away. 11 For the sunne hath rysen with heate, and the grasse hath withered, and his flowre hath fallen away, & the beautie of the fashion of it hath perished: So also shall the ryche man fade away in his wayes.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 And yet can not ye tel what shall happen on the morowe. For what thyng is your lyfe? It is euen a vapour, that appeareth for a litle tyme, and then he vanisheth away.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 Againe, as for the vngodly it shall not be well with him, neither shall he prolong his dayes: but euen as a shadowe, so shall he be that feareth not God.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My dayes are more swyft then a runner, they are gone & haue seene no good thing. 26 They are passed away as the shippes that be good vnder sayle, & as the eagle that fleeth to the pray.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 Thou makest them to flowe away, they are a sleepe: they be in the morning as an hearbe that groweth. 6 In the mornyng it florisheth and groweth vp: in the euenyng it is cut downe and wythered. 7 For we be consumed through thy displeasure: and we are astonyed through thy wrathfull indignation. 8 Thou hast set our misdeedes before thee: and our sinnes wherof we be not priuie, in the lyght of thy countenaunce. 9 For all our dayes do passe in thine anger: we spende our yeres as in speaking a worde.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 Wheras the vngodly do bud vp greene as the grasse, and wheras all workers of iniquitie do florishe: that they notwithstandyng shalbe destroyed for euer and euer.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The ryghteous shall florishe lyke a paulme tree: and shall spread abroade like a Cedar in Libanus.