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Job 14:2
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He blossoms like a flower, then withers;he flees like a shadow and does not last.
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
We grow up like flowers and then dry up and die. We are like a passing shadow that does not last.
He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
"Like a flower he comes forth and withers; He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
"Like a flower he comes out and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
Like a flower he comes forth and withers.He also flees like a shadow and does not stand.
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish.
He comes up like a flower and withers away, flees like a shadow, doesn't last.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
Our life is like a flower that grows quickly and then dies away. Our life is like a shadow that is here for a short time and then is gone.
He comes forth like a flower, and withers and fades away; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
We grow and wither as quickly as flowers; we disappear like shadows.
Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.
He comes forth like a flower and withers; he also flees like a shadow and does not stand.
He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
He cometh forth like a flower, and withereth; he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Hee commeth forth like a flower, and is cut downe: he fleeth also, as a shaddow and continueth not.
He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.
Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Which goith out, and is defoulid as a flour; and fleeth as schadewe, and dwellith neuere perfitli in the same staat.
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: He flees also as a shadow, and does not continue.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue.
We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
He grows up and dries like a flower. He leaves like a shadow and does not stay.
comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.
As a flower, he cometh forth - and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.
He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he flees like a shadow, and continues not.
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
"Like a flower he comes forth and withers. He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
like: Psalms 90:5-9, Psalms 92:7, Psalms 92:12, Psalms 103:15, Psalms 103:16, Isaiah 40:6-8, James 1:10, James 1:11, James 4:14, 1 Peter 1:24
fleeth: Job 8:9, Job 9:25, Job 9:26, 1 Chronicles 29:15, Psalms 102:11, Psalms 144:4, Ecclesiastes 8:13
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 4:19 - My head Job 4:19 - crushed Psalms 39:5 - Behold Psalms 90:6 - General Psalms 109:23 - gone Ecclesiastes 6:12 - the days of his vain life Isaiah 38:12 - have cut 1 Corinthians 7:29 - the time
Cross-References
And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the Lord , like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
And blessed be the most high God, which hath delivered thine enemies into thy hand. And he gave him tithes of all.
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
Hadid, Zeboim, Neballat,
My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down,.... As the flower comes from the earth, so does man; as it comes out of the stalk, so man out of his mother's womb; as the flower flourishes for a while, and looks gay and beautiful, so man while in youth, in health and prosperity. Job, doubtless, has respect to his own case before his troubles came upon him, when he was possessed of all that substance, which made him the greatest man of the east; when his children were like olive plants around his table, and his servants at his command, and he in perfect health of body: and as a flower flourishes for a little while, and then withers; no sooner is it come to its full blow, but presently decays; such is the goodliness of man, it fades away whenever God blows a blast upon it; yea, he is easily and quickly cut down by death, like a beautiful flower cut with the knife, or cropped by the hand, or trampled upon by the foot, see Psalms 103:15;
he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not; either as the shadow of the evening, which is lost when night comes on; or the shadow on a dial plate, which is continually moving on; or, as the Jewish Rabbins say, as the shadow of a bird flying, which stays not, whereas the shadow of a wall, or of a tree, continues: a shadow is an empty thing, without substance, dark and obscure, variable and uncertain, declining, fleeting, and passing away; and so fitly resembles the life of a man, which is but a vapour, a bubble, yea, as nothing with God; is full of darkness, of ignorance, and of adversity, very fickle, changeable, and inconstant, and at most but of a short continuance.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down - Nothing can be more obvious and more beautiful than this, and the image has been employed by writers in all ages, but nowhere with more beauty, or with more frequency than in the Bible; see Isaiah 40:6; Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:6; Psalms 103:15. Next to the Bible, it is probable that Shakespeare has employed the image with the most exquisite beauty of any poet:
This is the state of man; today he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him;
The third day comes a frost a killing frost,
And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a ripening - nips his root,
And then he falls.
Henry viii. Act iii. Sc. 2.
He fleeth also as a shadow - Another exquisite figure, and as true as it is beautiful. So the Psalmist:
My days are like a shadow that declineth.
Psalms 102:11.
Man is like to vanity;
His days are as a shadowy that passeth away.
Psalms 144:4.
The idea of Job is, that there is no substance, nothing that is permanent. A shadow moves on gently and silently, and is soon gone. It leaves no trace of its being, and returns no more. They who have watched the beautiful shadow of a cloud on a landscape, and have seen how rapidly it passes ever meadows and fields of grain, and rolls up the mountain side and disappears, will have a vivid conception of this figure. How gently yet how rapidly it moves. How soon it is gone. How void of impression is its course. Who can track its way; who can reach it? So man moves on. Soon he is gone; he leaves no trace of his being, and returns no more.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 14:2. He cometh forth like a flower — This is a frequent image both in the Old and New Testament writers; I need not quote the places here, as the readers will find them all in the margin.
He fleeth also as a shadow — Himself, as he appears among men, is only the shadow of his real, substantial, and eternal being. He is here compared to a vegetable; he springs up, bears his flower is often nipped by disease, blasted by afflictions and at last cut down by death. The bloom of youth, even in the most prosperous state, is only the forerunner of hoary hairs, enfeebled muscles, impaired senses, general debility, anility, and dissolution. All these images are finely embodied, and happily expressed, in the beautiful lines of a very nervous and correct poet, too little known, but whose compositions deserve the first place among what may be called the minor poets of Britain. See at the end of the chapter. Job 14:22.
