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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.

KJV

Qui quasi flos egreditur et conteritur, et fugit velut umbra, et numquam in eodem statu permanet.

Vulgate

ἢ ὥσπερ ἄνθος ἀνθῆσαν ἐξέπεσεν, ἀπέδρα δὲ ὥσπερ σκιὰ καὶ οὐ μὴ στῇ.

LXX

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

ASV

כְּ/צִ֣יץ יָ֭צָא וַ/יִּמָּ֑ל וַ/יִּבְרַ֥ח כַּ֝/צֵּ֗ל וְ/לֹ֣א יַעֲמֽוֹד

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

יִּבְרַ֖ח
ybrch
verb · 65×
לֹ֣א
l'
proper_noun · 5171×
ם
m
verb · 1071×
נְמַלְתֶּ֕ם
nmltm
verb · 5×
עֹמְדִ֖ים
'mdym
verb · 526×
צִ֥יץ
tsyts
noun · 14×
צֵ֥ל
tsl
noun · 49×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 29:15 — For 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.
  • 1Chr 29:15 — For 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.
  • 1Pet 1:24 — For 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:
  • Eccl 6:12 — For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
  • Eccl 8:13 — But 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.
  • Eccl 8:13 — But 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.
  • Isa 40:6 — 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:
  • Isa 40:6 — 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:
  • Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  • Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
  • Jas 4:14 — 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.
  • Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
  • Job 8:9 — (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
  • Job 9:25 — Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
  • Ps 37:2 — For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
  • Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
  • Ps 90:6 — In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
  • Ps 92:7 — 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:
  • Ps 92:12 — The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
  • Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 102:11 — My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
  • Ps 103:15 — As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
  • Ps 109:23 — I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
  • Ps 144:4 — Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.