Job 14:2

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. 16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 Now my days are swifter than a post: They flee away, they see no good, 26 They are passed away as the swift ships; As the eagle that swoopeth on the prey.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up. 6 In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth. 7 For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled. 8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

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  • Ps 144:4
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    4Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Job 14:1
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    1Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

  • Ps 103:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

    16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; And the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • Job 14:5-12
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    5Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with thee, And thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

    6Look away from him, that he may rest, Till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.

    7For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

    8Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, And the stock thereof die in the ground;

    9Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.

    10But man dieth, and is laid low: Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

    11[ As] the waters fail from the sea, And the river wasteth and drieth up;

    12So man lieth down and riseth not: Till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • Job 14:3
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    3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such a one, And bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    76%

    10and the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

    11For the sun ariseth with the scorching wind, and withereth the grass: and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his goings.

  • Ps 90:6
    76%

    6In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

  • Job 20:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: They that have seen him shall say, Where is he?

    8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

  • Job 8:12
    75%

    12Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb.

  • Ps 146:4
    75%

    4His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; In that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
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    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, And by the breath of [God's] mouth shall he go away.

  • Ps 102:11
    74%

    11My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.

  • Job 14:14
    74%

    14If a man die, shall he live [again] ? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Till my release should come.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

    16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that he laboreth for the wind?

  • 1 Pet 1:24
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    24For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

  • 2 Sam 14:14
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    14For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God take away life, but deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him.

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    12But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish.

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    15All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

    6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

  • Job 18:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath, And above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.

  • Jas 4:14
    73%

    14whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  • Job 14:20
    73%

    20Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth; Thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

  • Ps 89:47-48
    2 verses
    72%

    47Oh remember how short my time is: For what vanity hast thou created all the children of men!

    48What man is he that shall live and not see death, That shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? {{Selah

  • Job 8:16
    72%

    16He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden.

  • Job 24:22
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    22Yet [God] preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

  • Isa 40:7
    72%

    7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

  • Job 8:9
    72%

    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);

  • Ps 37:36
    72%

    36But one passed by, and, lo, he was not: Yea, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Isa 38:12
    72%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as a shepherd's tent: I have rolled up, like a weaver, my life; he will cut me off from the loom: From day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.

  • Job 4:20
    72%

    20Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.

  • Job 10:20
    71%

    20Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

  • Job 21:32
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    32Yet shall he be borne to the grave, And men shall keep watch over the tomb.