Job 14:2

Job Continues To Argue His Case With God

¹ Man born of woman
is short of days and full of trouble.
² He blossoms like a flower, then withers;
he flees like a shadow and does not last.
³ Do You really take notice of one like this?
Will You bring me into judgment against You?

Job

Job 8:9

since we were born only yesterday and know nothing.
Our days on earth are but a shadow.

1 Peter 1:24

For

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

1 Chronicles 29:15

For we live before You as foreigners and temporary residents in Your presence as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

Job 9:25-26

My days fly by faster than a runner;
they flee without seeing any good.

Psalm 90:5-9

You end their lives; they sleep.
They are like grass that grows in the morning—

Psalm 92:7

though the wicked sprout like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be eternally destroyed.

Psalm 92:12

The righteous thrive like a palm tree
and grow like a cedar tree in Lebanon.

Psalm 102:11

My days are like a lengthening shadow,
and I wither away like grass.

Psalm 103:15-16

As for man, his days are like grass—
he blooms like a flower of the field;

Psalm 144:4

Man is like a breath;
his days are like a passing shadow.

Ecclesiastes 8:13

However, it will not go well with the wicked, and they will not lengthen their days like a shadow, for they are not reverent before God.

Isaiah 40:6-8

A voice was saying, “Cry out!”
Another said, “What should I cry out?”
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.

James 1:10-11

but the one who is rich should boast in his humiliation because he will pass away like a flower of the field.

James 4:14

You don’t even know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be! For you are like smoke that appears for a little while, then vanishes.