Job 14:2

Human life blooms briefly like a flower and vanishes like a shadow. Its beauty is real but fleeting.

Cross-references · 14

• Isa 40:6–8A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
• Job 8:9For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
• Ps 103:15–16As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
• Jas 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• 1 Chr 29:15For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
• Jas 1:10–11But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
• Ps 144:4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
• Ps 102:11My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
• Eccl 8:13Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.
• Ps 92:12The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
• Job 9:25–26My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.
• Ps 90:5–9You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
• Ps 92:7that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

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