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Job 14:2
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
Job 14:2 · World English Bible
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 comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
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In context
1 “Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
2 He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one.
5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass.
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