Job 14:2

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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.

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1 Peter 1:24

Fleeth

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Psalm 90:6

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Thou dost cause them to pass by as the waters of a river; they are as a dream, which is strong in the morning like grass.

The wicked spring forth as the grass, and all the workers of iniquity blossom, so that they shall be destroyed for ever:

As for man, his days are as grass; as an open flower of the field, so he blossoms.

The voice that said, Cry. And I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the mercy thereof is as the open flower of the field:

and he who is rich, in his low status, because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

and ye do not know what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? Certainly it is a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,

Fleeth

for we are but of yesterday and know nothing because our days upon earth are as a shadow.

Now my days are swifter than a post; they fled away, they never saw good.

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 no other hope.

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Man is like unto vanity; his days are as a shadow that passes away.

but it shall never be well with the wicked, neither shall his days be prolonged, which are as a shadow, because he did not fear before the presence of God.

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In the morning it blossoms and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.