Verse 11

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

Referenced Verses

• Job 14:2 : 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
• Ps 109:23 : 23 I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
• Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.
• Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?
• 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."
• Jas 1:10 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
• 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.
• 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;
• Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah. 6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
• Ps 102:3-4 : 3 For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch. 4 My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.