KJVHe cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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.
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XIV. Job had turned from speaking to his friends, finding it to no purpose to reason with them, and here he goes on to speak to God and himself. He had reminded his friends of their frailty and mortality ( ch. xiii. 12 ); here he…