Job 14:2
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Cross-reference
Job 8:9 also describes life as a shadow, mirroring the fleeting shadow image in Job 14:2.
Job 9:26 uses swift boats and eagles to convey life's fleetingness, echoing the same theme of transience.
Job 4:19 speaks of humans crushed like moths, paralleling the frailty and fleeting nature of life.
Job 9:25 compares life to a swift runner — different image but same theme of life's fleeting nature.
1 Peter 1:24 cites the same OT flower metaphor, echoing Job's description of fleeting life.
1 Chronicles 29:15 describes days as a shadow without hope, directly paralleling the fleeting shadow imagery.
James 1:11 elaborates the flower withering imagery with the sun scorching it — same theme of transience.
James 1:10 similarly uses the flower withering metaphor for the rich passing away.
Isaiah 40:6-8 uses the same grass/flower metaphor for human frailty, contrasting with God's enduring word.
Ecclesiastes 8:13 uses the shadow metaphor for short life, though focused on the wicked—same core image.
Psalm 144:4 compares humans to a breath and a fleeting shadow, reinforcing the same brevity theme.
Psalm 103:16 continues the flower metaphor, describing how the wind removes it — same transient life theme.
Psalm 103:15 echoes the same metaphor: human life is like grass and flowers that quickly wither.
Psalm 102:11 says days are like an evening shadow and withering grass, matching Job's flower and shadow.
In Psalm 90:5-9, the same flower/grass imagery describes life as fleeting under God's wrath — deepening Job's metaphor of withering flower and shadow.
Psalm 109:23 says 'I fade like an evening shadow,' directly echoing the shadow of life's brevity.
Psalm 90:6 depicts grass that springs up and withers by evening, identical to the flower analogy.
Psalm 39:5 calls life a mere handbreadth and a breath, reinforcing the brevity theme.
Ecclesiastes 6:12 echoes the same 'shadow' metaphor for fleeting life, reinforcing the theme of human transience.
Isaiah 38:12 uses similar imagery of life being cut short (tent, weaver), paralleling Job's lament on brevity.
Psalm 92:12 uses a plant metaphor for the righteous flourishing, contrasting with Job's image of human life withering like a flower.
James 4:14 compares life to a vanishing mist — parallels the same theme of life's brevity, though a different image.