Job 14:2
Old Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."
Word-by-Word Analysis
בּוֹא
bôwʼ
to go or come (in a wide variety of applications)
יָצָא
yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
דָּמָה
dâmâh
to compare; by implication, to resemble, liken, consider
פֶּרַח
perach
a calyx (natural or artificial); generally, bloom
נוּס
nûwç
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
ἐμμένω
emménō
to stay in the same place, i.e. (figuratively) persevere
Key Terms in This Verse
ἐμμένω emménō
to stay in the same place, i.e. (figuratively) persevere
Study G1696 →נוּס nûwç
to flit, i.e. vanish away (subside, escape; causatively, chase, impel, deliver)
Study H5127 →יָצָא yâtsâʼ
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Study H3318 →Cross References
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
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