Parallel Verses
King James Version
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
New American Standard Bible
He also flees like
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.
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 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
Names
Cross References
Job 8:9
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
1 Chronicles 29:15
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 none abiding.
Job 9:25-26
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Psalm 90:5-9
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
Psalm 92:7
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
Psalm 92:12
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Psalm 102:11
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Psalm 103:15-16
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
Isaiah 40:6-8
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
James 1:10-11
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
James 4:14
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.