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Job 14:2
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
Job 14:2 · Bible in Basic English
Job 14:2 in other translations
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
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In context
1 As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
2 He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
3 Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;
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