Job 14:2

WEB

²He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.

KJV

²He cometh forth^[+] like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

BSB

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

FBV

²like a flower that blooms and withers, like a passing shadow that soon disappears.

Extra References

Isaiah 40:6-8

⁶The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. ⁷The grass withers, the flower fades, because the LORD’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. ⁸The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”

1 Peter 1:24

²⁴For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

Job 8:9

⁹(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

Psalms 103:15-16

¹⁵As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. ¹⁶For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

James 4:14

¹⁴Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

1 Chronicles 29:15

¹⁵For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

James 1:10-11

¹⁰and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. ¹¹For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.