Job 14:2

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Job 14:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible

1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.

2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?

4 Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Psalms 90:5

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

Psalms 90:6

in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.

Psalms 90:7

For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.

Psalms 90:8

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Psalms 90:9

For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.

Psalms 92:7

that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

Psalms 92:12

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

Psalms 103:15

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

Psalms 103:16

when the wind passes over, it vanishes, and its place remembers it no more.

Isaiah 40:6

A 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.

Isaiah 40:7

The grass withers and the flowers fall when the breath of the LORD blows on them; indeed, the people are grass.

Isaiah 40:8

The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”

James 1:10

But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

James 1:11

For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its flower falls and its beauty is lost. So too, the rich man will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

James 4:14

You 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 Peter 1:24

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,

Job 8:9

For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.

Job 9:25

My days are swifter than a runner; they flee without seeing good.

Job 9:26

They sweep by like boats of papyrus, like an eagle swooping down on its prey.

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we are foreigners and strangers in Your presence, as were all our forefathers. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Psalms 102:11

My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.

Psalms 144:4

Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

Yet because the wicked do not fear God, it will not go well with them, and their days will not lengthen like a shadow.