Job 14:2
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 grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand 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 abiding.
- 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 evil-doers 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.
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4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
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1 "Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
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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.
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5 Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with you, And you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;
6 Look 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.
8 Though the root of it grows old in the earth, And the stock of it dies in the ground;
9 Yet through the scent of water it will bud, And put forth boughs like a plant.
10 But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?
11 As the waters fail from the sea, And the river wastes and dries up,
12 So man lies down and doesn't rise; Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, Nor be roused out of their sleep.
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3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?
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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.
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6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
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7 Yet he shall perish forever like his own dung, Those who have seen him shall say, 'Where is he?'
8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: Yes, he shall be chased away like a vision of the night.
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12 While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, It withers before any other reed.
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4 His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.
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9 As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
10 He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him any more.
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4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
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29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, Neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.
30 He shall not depart out of darkness; The flame shall dry up his branches, By the breath of God's mouth shall he go away.
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11 My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.
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14 If a man dies, shall he live again? All the days of my warfare would I wait, Until my release should come.
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15 As 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.
16 This 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?
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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;
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14 For we must needs 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.
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12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.
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15 All flesh would perish together, And man would turn again to dust.
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6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.
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16 His roots shall be dried up beneath, Above shall his branch be cut off.
17 His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
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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.
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20 You forever prevail against him, and he passes; You change his face, and send him away.
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47 Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
48 What man is he who shall live and not see death, Who shall deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah.
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16 He is green before the sun, His shoots go forth over his garden.
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22 Yet God preserves the mighty by his power. He rises up who has no assurance of life.
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7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.
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9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)
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36 But he passed away, and, behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.
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12 My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me as 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 will you make an end of me.
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20 Between morning and evening they are destroyed. They perish forever without any regarding it.
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20 Aren't my days few? Cease then, Leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,
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32 Yet shall he be borne to the grave, Men shall keep watch over the tomb.