KJV King James Version
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
WEB World English Bible
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
ASV American Standard Version
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
Surrounding context — Job 14
1 Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4 Who can bring a clean [thing] out of an unclean? not one.
5 Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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Isaiah 40:6-8The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field:1 Peter 1:24For all flesh [is] as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:Job 8:9(For we [are but of] yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth [are] a shadow:)Psalm 103:15-16[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.James 4:14Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.1 Chronicles 29:15For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.James 1:10-11But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.Psalm 144:4Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.Psalm 102:11My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.Ecclesiastes 8:13But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.Psalm 92:12The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.Job 9:25-26Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.Psalm 90:5-9Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.Psalm 92:7When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; [it is] that they shall be destroyed for ever:
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