Psalms 103:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • 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:
  • 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.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 I, even I, am your comforter: are you so poor in heart as to be in fear of man who will come to an end, and of the son of man who will be like grass?
  • Nah 1:4 : 4 He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 ... 6 In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.
  • Isa 28:4 : 4 And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.
  • 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.
  • Isa 28:1 : 1 Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again. 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 103:16
    85%

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

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    84%

    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:

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    83%

    3 Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

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

  • Isa 40:6-8
    3 verses
    82%

    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.

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

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

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

  • Ps 103:14
    80%

    14 For he has knowledge of our feeble frame; he sees that we are only dust.

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Ps 102:11
    78%

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

  • Ps 90:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    4 For to you a thousand years are no more than yesterday when it is past, and like a watch in the night.

    5 ...

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

  • Job 8:12
    76%

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

  • Job 14:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

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

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

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

  • Job 34:15
    76%

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

  • Ps 146:4
    75%

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

  • Ps 49:12
    74%

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

  • Ps 37:2
    74%

    2 For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Jas 4:14
    73%

    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.

  • Ps 39:5
    73%

    5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9 For all our days have gone by in your wrath; our years come to an end like a breath.

    10 The measure of our life is seventy years; and if through strength it may be eighty years, its pride is only trouble and sorrow, for it comes to an end and we are quickly gone.

  • Ps 104:14
    72%

    14 He makes the grass come up for the cattle, and plants for the use of man; so that bread may come out of the earth;

  • Eccl 3:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

    20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

  • Ps 78:39
    71%

    39 So he kept in mind that they were only flesh; a breath which is quickly gone, and will not come again.

  • Ps 129:6
    71%

    6 Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

  • Job 10:5
    71%

    5 Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • Ps 92:7
    71%

    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 89:47
    71%

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

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    71%

    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 102:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3 My days are wasted like smoke, and my bones are burned up as in a fire.

    4 My heart is broken; it has become dry and dead like grass, so that I give no thought to food.

  • Isa 2:22
    70%

    22 Have no more to do with man, whose life is only a breath, for he is of no value.

  • Isa 37:27
    70%

    27 This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.

  • Job 8:9
    70%

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

  • Job 7:1
    70%

    1 Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

  • Ps 104:29
    69%

    29 If your face is veiled, they are troubled; when you take away their breath, they come to an end, and go back to the dust.

  • Isa 28:4
    69%

    4 And the dead flower of his glory, which is on the head of the fertile valley, will be like the first early fruit before the summer; which a man takes and puts in his mouth the minute he sees it.

  • Eccl 6:12
    69%

    12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Job 24:24
    69%

    24 For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

    23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

  • Luke 12:28
    69%

    28 But if God gives such clothing to the grass in the field, which today is living, and tomorrow will be burned in the oven, how much more will he give clothing to you, O men of little faith?

  • Job 14:5
    69%

    5 If 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;