Job 14:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

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  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice said, Cry out. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field: 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 As for man, his days are like grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16 For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as were all our fathers; 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 declines, and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 But the rich in that he is made low, because as the flower of the grass he will pass away. 11 For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it will not be well with the wicked, nor will he prolong his days, which are like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 Now my days are swifter than a runner: they flee away, they see no good. 26 They pass away like swift ships: like the eagle hastening to the prey.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 You carry them away like a flood; they are like a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which grows up. 6 In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers. 7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 When the wicked spring up like the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is so they may be destroyed forever.
  • 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 vanity: his days are as a shadow that passes away.

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

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

    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.

  • Job 14:5-12
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    5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with You; You have appointed his limits that he cannot pass;

    6Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hired man, his day.

    7For there is hope for a tree, if it is cut down, that it will sprout again, and that its tender branch will not cease.

    8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stump dies in the ground;

    9Yet through the scent of water it will bud and bring forth branches like a plant.

    10But man dies and wastes away; yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up,

    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Job 14:3
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    3And do You open Your eyes upon such a one and bring me into judgment with You?

  • 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 will pass away.

    11For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Ps 90:6
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    6In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

  • Job 20:7-8
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    7Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung; those who have seen him will say, Where is he?

    8He shall fly away like a dream and shall not be found; yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.

  • Job 8:12
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    12While it is still green and not cut down, it withers before any other herb.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4His breath departs, he returns to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

  • Eccl 6:4
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    4For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.

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

  • Ps 102:11
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    11My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

  • Job 14:14
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    14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my appointed time I will wait, till my change comes.

  • Eccl 5:15-16
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    15As he came from his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of 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 has he who has labored for the wind?

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    24Because "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

  • 2 Sam 14:14
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    14For we must die, and are as water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but he devises means, so that his banished are not expelled from him.

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    15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall return again to dust.

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

  • Job 18:16-18
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    16His roots shall be dried up below, and above his branch shall be cut off.

    17His memory 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.

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    14Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

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    20You prevail forever against him, and he passes; You change his countenance and send him away.

  • Ps 89:47-48
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    47Remember how short my time is; why have you made all men in vain?

    48What man can live and not see death? Shall he deliver his soul from the power of the grave? Selah.

  • Job 8:16
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    16He is green before the sun, and his branch shoots forth in his garden.

  • Job 24:22
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    22He draws also the mighty with his power; he rises up, and no man is sure of life.

  • Isa 40:7
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    7The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people are grass.

  • Job 8:9
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    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow:)

  • Ps 37:36
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    36Yet he passed away, and indeed, he was no more; yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Isa 38:12
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    12My lifespan is gone, taken from me like a shepherd's tent: I have cut off my life like a weaver; He cuts me off with pining sickness: from day to night You make an end of me.

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    20They are destroyed from morning to evening; they perish forever without anyone regarding it.

  • Job 10:20
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    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 he shall be brought to the grave, and shall remain in the tomb.