Job 14:2
King James Version (KJV)
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
American Standard Version (ASV)
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
World English Bible (WEB)
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
Job 14:2 Cross References
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
The 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:
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Whereas 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.
