Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Context
This verse from Job Chapter 14 connects to 10 cross-references. Job meditates on the brevity and inevitability of human mortality, comparing human life to a flower cut down. He muses wistfully that if a tree is cut down it sprouts again, but a man lies down and does not rise. …
Bản dịch khác
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
Tham chiếu chéo
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as …
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass …
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they …
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.