Job 14:2
like a flower that blooms and withers, like a passing shadow that soon disappears.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
In Context
1“Life is short and full of trouble,
3Do you even notice me, God, and why do you have to drag me to court?
Cross References
Job 8:9Our days on earth fade as quickly as a passing shadow.
Psalms 39:7So Lord, what am I looking for? I put my hope in you.
Psalms 90:6it sprouts in the morning, fresh and new, but by the evening it is withered and dead.
Psalms 92:12Those who live right flourish like a palm tree; they grow tall like a cedar tree in Lebanon.
Psalms 102:11My life is fading away like a shadow that lengthens—I'm withering away like grass.
Psalms 103:15Human lifetimes are like grass: we blossom like flowers in a field,
Matthew Henry on Job 14:2-7
Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. ( b. c. 1520.) 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; 6 Turn from him, that he may… Read the whole commentary →