Job 14:2

World English Bible (2000)

He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

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Referenced Verses

  • 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 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like 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. Its place remembers it no more.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it 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 don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good, 26 They have passed away as the swift ships, as the eagle that swoops on the prey.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry. 7 For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. 9 For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 144:4
    83%

    4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Job 14:1
    81%

    1"Man, who 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 like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. 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, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;

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

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

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

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

    10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

    12so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

  • Job 14:3
    78%

    3Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    76%

    10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Ps 90:6
    76%

    6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Job 20:7-8
    2 verses
    76%

    7yet he shall perish forever like his own dung. Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'

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

  • Job 8:12
    75%

    12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

  • Ps 146:4
    75%

    4His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • Job 7:9-10
    2 verses
    75%

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes 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
    75%

    4for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • Job 15:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    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. By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.

  • Ps 102:11
    74%

    11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • Job 14:14
    74%

    14If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, until 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.

    16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    74%

    24For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

  • 2 Sam 14:14
    74%

    14For we must die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

  • Ps 49:12
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    12But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Job 34:15
    73%

    15all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Job 7:6
    73%

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

  • Job 18:16-18
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    73%

    16His roots shall be dried up beneath. Above shall his branch be cut off.

    17His memory shall perish from the earth. 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 you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

  • Job 14:20
    73%

    20You forever prevail against him, and he departs. You change his face, and send him away.

  • Ps 89:47-48
    2 verses
    72%

    47Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

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

  • Job 8:16
    72%

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

  • Job 24:22
    72%

    22Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.

  • Isa 40:7
    72%

    7The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

  • Job 8:9
    72%

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

  • Ps 37:36
    72%

    36But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

  • Isa 38:12
    72%

    12My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like 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 you will make an end of me.

  • Job 4:20
    72%

    20Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.

  • Job 10:20
    71%

    20Aren't my days few? Cease then. Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Job 21:32
    71%

    32Yet he will be borne to the grave. Men shall keep watch over the tomb.