Job 14:2
Verse 2 of 22. The 14th of 42 chapters in Job, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
3And dost thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest me into judgment with thee?
4Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Job 14:2 in the World English Bible
He grows up like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn’t continue.Read Job 14:2 in the WEB
Matthew Henry on Job 14:2
Of the nature of human life: it is a flower, it is a shadow, v. 2. The flower is fading, and all its beauty soon withers and is gone. The shadow is fleeting, and its very being will soon be lost and drowned in the shadows of the night. Of neither do we make any account; in neither do we put any confidence.
Read Matthew Henry on Job 14:1–6: Brevity and Frailty of Human Life. (b. c. 1520.)
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