Psalm 102:11
My days are like an evening shadow that lengthens and vanishes [with the sun];
And as for me, I wither away like grass.
Job 14:2
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
Psalm 109:23
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.
Psalm 144:4
Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a shadow that passes away.
Psalm 39:5-6
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]!
Psalm 102:3-4
For my days have vanished in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who [
Isaiah 40:6-8
A voice says, “Call out [prophesy].”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
[The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.
James 1:10
and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.
James 4:14
1 Peter 1:24
For,
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
I am withered
Bible References
My days
For my days have vanished in smoke,
And my bones have been scorched like a hearth.
“Behold, You have made my days as [short as] hand widths,
And my lifetime is as nothing in Your sight.
Surely every man at his best is a mere breath [a wisp of smoke, a vapor that vanishes]!
I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.
Man is like a mere breath;
His days are like a shadow that passes away.
“Like a flower he comes forth and withers;
He also flees like a shadow and does not remain.
I am withered
My heart has been struck like grass and withered,
Indeed, [absorbed by my heartache] I forget to eat my food.
A voice says, “Call out [prophesy].”
Then he answered, “What shall I call out?”
[The voice answered:] All humanity is [as frail as] grass, and all that makes it attractive [its charm, its loveliness] is [momentary] like the flower of the field.
And all its glory like the flower of grass.
The grass withers
And the flower falls off,