Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.
New American Standard Bible
He also flees like
King James Version
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Holman Bible
he flees like a shadow and does not last.
International Standard Version
He springs up like a flower and then withers. Like a shadow, he disappears and doesn't last.
A Conservative Version
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
American Standard Version
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Amplified
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
Bible in Basic English
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
Darby Translation
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
King James 2000
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Like a flower he comes up, and he withers away; and he flees like a shadow, but he does not last.
Modern King James verseion
He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He cometh up and is cut down like a flower. He flyeth as it were a shadow, and never continueth in one state.
NET Bible
He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.
New Heart English Bible
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
The Emphasized Bible
As a flower, he cometh forth - and fadeth, He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Webster
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
World English Bible
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
Youngs Literal Translation
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
Themes
death » Miscellaneous subjects » Fleeing as a shadow
death » Miscellaneous subjects » Being cut down
natural Death » Regard, as at hand
natural Death » Described as » Fleeing as a shadow
natural Death » Described as » Being cut down
Flowers » Illustrative of » Shortness of man's life
Life » Uncertainty of physical » Like hurrying messengers
Life » Brief » Like hurrying messengers
natural Life » Is compared to » A flower
Man » Man being born into trouble
Select readings » The brevity of life
Sin » Mankind being sinful in nature
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 14:2
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Continues To Argue His Case With God
1 Man being born of woman is short of days and full of disquiet 2 And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand. 3 Also upon this one didst thou open thine eyes? and wilt thou bring Me into judgment with thee?
Names
Cross References
Job 8:9
(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out:
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
Job 9:25-26
My days were swift above a runner: they fled, they saw not good.
Psalm 90:5-9
Thou didst overwhelm them; in sleep shall they be; in the morning as the grass will pass away.
Psalm 92:7
In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:
Psalm 92:12
The just one shall flourish as the palm tree: he shall become great as the cedar in Lebanon.
Psalm 102:11
My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
Psalm 103:15-16
Man, his days as grass: as the blossom of the field, thus he will flourish.
Psalm 144:4
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice said, Call And he said, What shall I call? All flesh grass, and all its goodness as the flower of the field:
James 1:10-11
And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.
James 4:14
(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)