Parallel Verses
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.
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.
Darby Translation
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
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.
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 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble. 2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again. 3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
Names
Cross References
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)
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:
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.
Job 9:25-26
My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.
Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.
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.
Isaiah 40:6-8
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 1:10-11
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.