Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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Psalm 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
Isaiah 40:6
A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.
James 1:10
But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
James 4:14
When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
1 Peter 1:24
For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead:
Fleeth
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
Job 9:25
My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.