Verse 2

He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:9 : 9 Namely, yt we are but of yesterdaye, and considre not, that oure dayes vpon earth are buth a very shadow.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man is as the floure of grasse. The grasse withereth, & the floure falleth awaye
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The same voyce spake: Now crie. And I sayde: what shal I crie? Then spake it: that, all flesh is grasse, and that all the bewtie therof, is as the floure of the felde. 7 When the grasse is wytthered, the floure falleth awaye. Euen so is the people as grasse, when the breath of the LORDE bloweth vpon them. 8 Neuerthelesse whether the grasse wyther, or the floure fade awaye: Yet the worde of oure God endureth for euer. Morouer the voyce cried thus:
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 That a man in his tyme is but as is grasse, & florisheth as a floure of the felde. 16 For as soone as the wynde goeth ouer it, it gone, and the place therof knoweth it nomore.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are but pilgrems & straugers before the, as were all oure fathers. Oure life vpon earth is as a shadowe, and here is no abydinge.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes are gone like a shadowe, and I am wythered like grasse.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in yt he is made lowe. For eue as the flor of ye grasse shal he vanyshe awaye. 11 The Sonne ryseth wt heat and the grasse wydereth, & his floure falleth awaye, and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: euen so shal the ryche man perisshe with his abundaunce.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 & yet ca not tell what shal happe to morowe. For what thinge is youre life? It is euen a vapoure that apereth for a lytell tyme, and the vanysheth awaye:
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 Agayne, as for the vngodly, it shall not be well with him, nether shal he prologe his dayes: but euen as a shadowe, so shall he be that feareth not God.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My dayes haue bene more swifte, then a runner: they are gone sodenly, and haue sene no good thinge. 26 They are passed awaye, as the shippes that be good vnder sale, and as the Aegle that haisteth to the pray.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 As soone as thou scatrest them, they are euen as a slepe, and fade awaye sodenly like the grasse. 6 In the mornynge it is grene and groweth vp, but in the euenynge it is cutt downe and wythered. 7 For we consume awaye in thy displeasure, and are afrayed at thy wrothfull indignacion. 8 Thou settest oure mi?dedes before the, and oure secrete synnes in the light of thy countenaunce. 9 For when thou art angrie, all or dayes are gone, we brynge or yeares to an ende, as it were a tayle that is tolde.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 That the vngodly are grene as the grasse, and that all the workes of wickednes do florish, to be destroyed for euer.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 & myne eare shall heare his desyre of the wicked yt ryse vp agaynst me.