Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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Psalm 90:5
You sweep them away [like a flood]. They fall asleep. In the morning [they are] like grass [that] sprouts anew.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked flourish like grass and all [the] workers of evil blossom, [it is] so they can be destroyed forever.
Psalm 103:15
As for man, his days [are] like the grass. As the flower of the field, so he blossoms.
Isaiah 40:6
A voice [is] saying, "Call!" And he said, "What shall I call?" All {humankind} [are] grass, and all his loyalty [is] like the flowers of the field.
James 1:10
but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass.
James 4:14
you who do not know {what will happen tomorrow}, {what your life will be like}. For you are a smoky vapor that appears for a short time and then disappears.
1 Peter 1:24
For "all flesh [is] like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and the flower falls off,
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Job 8:9
for we [are of] yesterday, and we do not know, for our days on earth [are] a shadow.
Job 9:25
"And my days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they do not see good.
1 Chronicles 29:15
For we [are] strangers before you and sojourners like all our ancestors. Our days [are] like the shadow upon earth, and there is no hope [of abiding].
Psalm 102:11
My days [are] like a lengthened shadow, and I wither like grass.
Psalm 144:4
Humankind is like a breath, his days like a passing shadow.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not prolong [their] days, like the shadow; because there is no fearing {God's presence}.
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Psalm 90:6
In the morning it blossoms and sprouts anew; by evening it withers and dries up.