Job 14:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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 of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice said, Cry. And he 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 spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
  • 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 [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none 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 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away. 11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it 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 ways.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, 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] hasteth to 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 by thine anger, and by 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 spend our years as a tale [that is told].
  • 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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    4Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

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  • Ps 103:15-16
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    15[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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

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    7¶ For 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;

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    12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens [be] no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

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    3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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    76%

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

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    7[Yet] he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where [is] he?

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

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    4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

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    11My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

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    14If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
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    15As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

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

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    24¶ For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

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    14For we must needs die, and [are] as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect [any] person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.

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    73%

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    73%

    14Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

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

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    47Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

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    7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass.

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    72%

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