Verse 2

He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 8:9 : 9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant: for our dayes vpon earth are but a shadowe)
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away.
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 A voyce saide, Crie; he saide, What shall I crie? All flesh is grasse, and all the grace thereof is as the floure of the fielde. 7 The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth, because the Spirite of the Lorde bloweth vpon it: surely the people is grasse. 8 The grasse withereth, the floure fadeth: but the worde of our God shall stand for euer.
  • Ps 103:15-16 : 15 The dayes of man are as grasse: as a flowre of the fielde, so florisheth he. 16 For the winde goeth ouer it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall knowe it no more.
  • 1 Chr 29:15 : 15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.
  • Ps 102:11 : 11 My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
  • Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 Againe hee that is rich, in that hee is made lowe: for as the flower of the grasse, shall he vanish away. 11 For as when the sunne riseth with heate, then the grasse withereth, and his flower falleth away, and the goodly shape of it perisheth: euen so shall the rich man wither away in all his waies.
  • Jas 4:14 : 14 (And yet ye cannot tell what shalbe to morowe. For what is your life? It is euen a vapour that appeareth for a litle time, and afterward vanisheth away)
  • Eccl 8:13 : 13 But it shall not be well to the wicked, neither shall he prolong his dayes: he shall be like a shadowe, because he feareth not before God.
  • Job 9:25-26 : 25 My dayes haue bene more swift then a post: they haue fled, and haue seene no good thing. 26 They are passed as with the most swift ships, and as the eagle that flyeth to the pray.
  • Ps 90:5-9 : 5 Thou hast ouerflowed them: they are as a sleepe: in the morning he groweth like the grasse: 6 In the morning it florisheth and groweth, but in the euening it is cut downe 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, and our secret sinnes in the light of thy countenance. 9 For all our dayes are past in thine anger: we haue spent our yeeres as a thought.
  • Ps 92:7 : 7 (When the wicked growe as the grasse, and all the workers of wickednesse doe flourish) that they shall be destroyed for euer.
  • Ps 92:12 : 12 The righteous shall flourish like a palme tree, and shall grow like a Cedar in Lebanon.