Job 14:2
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.
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- Isaiah 40:6–8 The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”
- 1 Peter 1:24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
- Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)