Job 14:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. 7 The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. 8 The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field. 16 The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end. 11 For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good. 26 They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry. 7 We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath. 8 You have put our evil doings before you, our secret sins in the light of your face. 9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 144:4
    83%

    4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Job 14:1
    81%

    1As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

  • Ps 103:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

    16The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

  • Job 14:5-12
    8 verses
    81%

    5If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

    6Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

    7For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.

    8Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

    9Still, at the smell of water, it will make buds, and put out branches like a young plant.

    10But man comes to his death and is gone: he gives up his spirit, and where is he?

    11The waters go from a pool, and a river becomes waste and dry;

    12So man goes down to his last resting-place and comes not again: till the heavens come to an end, they will not be awake or come out of their sleep.

  • Job 14:3
    78%

    3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.

    11For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Ps 90:6
    76%

    6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • Job 20:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

    8He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

  • Job 8:12
    75%

    12When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.

  • Ps 146:4
    75%

    4Man's breath goes out, he is turned back again to dust; in that day all his purposes come to an end.

  • Job 7:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

    10He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

  • Eccl 6:4
    75%

    4In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    29He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

    30He does not come out of the dark; his branches are burned by the flame, and the wind takes away his bud.

  • Ps 102:11
    74%

    11My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

  • Job 14:14
    74%

    14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
    2 verses
    74%

    15And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?

    16All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    74%

    24For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:

  • 2 Sam 14:14
    74%

    14For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.

  • Ps 49:12
    74%

    12But man, like the animals, does not go on for ever; he comes to an end like the beasts.

  • Job 34:15
    73%

    15All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

    6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

  • Job 18:16-18
    3 verses
    73%

    16Under the earth his roots are dry, and over it his branch is cut off.

    17His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.

    18He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

  • Jas 4:14
    73%

    14When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

  • Job 14:20
    73%

    20You overcome him for ever, and he is gone; his face is changed in death, and you send him away.

  • Ps 89:47-48
    2 verses
    72%

    47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

    48What man now living will not see death? will he be able to keep back his soul from the underworld? (Selah.)

  • Job 8:16
    72%

    16He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden.

  • Job 24:22
    72%

    22But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.

  • Isa 40:7
    72%

    7The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

  • Job 8:9
    72%

    9(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

  • Ps 37:36
    72%

    36But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

  • Isa 38:12
    72%

    12My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • Job 4:20
    72%

    20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • Job 10:20
    71%

    20Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • Job 21:32
    71%

    32He is taken to his last resting-place, and keeps watch over it.