Job 14:2
Job · Old Testament · Chapter 14
“He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”Job 14:2
What Does Job 14:2 Mean?
Job 14:2 is found in the book of Job, chapter 14, verse 2 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 20 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.
Cross-References (20)
These passages are connected to Job 14:2 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.
Isaiah 40:6“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:”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:”Job 8:9“(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)”Psalms 103:15“As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.”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.”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.”James 1:10“But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.”Psalms 144:4“Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.”Psalms 102:11“My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.”Job 9:25“Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.”Psalms 92:12“The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.”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.”Psalms 90:5“Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.”Psalms 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:”Psalms 37:2“For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”Ecclesiastes 6:12“For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?”Psalms 90:6“In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.”Psalms 109:23“I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.”Job 4:19“How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?”Job 4:20“They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding it.”
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