Psalms 103:15

World English Bible (2000)

As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 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;
  • Jas 1:10-11 : 10 and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away. 11 For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.
  • Isa 51:12 : 12 "I, even I, am he who comforts you: who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;
  • Nah 1:4 : 4 He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. Bashan languishes, and Carmel; and the flower of Lebanon languishes.
  • Ps 90:5-6 : 5 You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass. 6 In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.
  • Isa 28:4 : 4 The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.
  • Isa 40:6-8 : 6 The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field. 7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass. 8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."
  • Isa 28:1 : 1 Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley of those who are overcome with wine!
  • Job 14:1-3 : 1 "Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue. 3 Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ps 103:16
    85%

    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

  • 1 Pet 1:24
    84%

    24For, "All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    83%

    3Yahweh, what is man, that you care for him? Or the son of man, that you think of him?

    4Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

  • Isa 40:6-8
    3 verses
    82%

    6The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.

    7The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.

    8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."

  • Job 14:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    1"Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.

    2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • Ps 103:14
    80%

    14For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

  • Jas 1:10-11
    2 verses
    79%

    10and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Ps 102:11
    78%

    11My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

  • Ps 90:4-6
    3 verses
    77%

    4For a thousand years in your sight are just like yesterday when it is past, like a watch in the night.

    5You sweep them away as they sleep. In the morning they sprout like new grass.

    6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Job 8:12
    76%

    12While it is yet in its greenness, not cut down, it withers before any other reed.

  • Job 14:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9yet through the scent of water it will bud, and put forth boughs like a plant.

    10But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

    11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

  • Job 34:15
    76%

    15all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.

  • Ps 146:4
    75%

    4His spirit departs, and he returns to the earth. In that very day, his thoughts perish.

  • Ps 49:12
    74%

    12But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.

  • Ps 37:2
    74%

    2For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.

  • Jas 4:14
    73%

    14Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

  • Ps 39:5
    73%

    5Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

  • Ps 90:9-10
    2 verses
    72%

    9For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

    10The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

  • Ps 104:14
    72%

    14He causes the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for man to cultivate, that he may bring forth food out of the earth:

  • Eccl 3:19-20
    2 verses
    72%

    19For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

    20All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

  • Ps 78:39
    71%

    39He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn't come again.

  • Ps 129:6
    71%

    6Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;

  • Job 10:5
    71%

    5Are your days as the days of mortals, or your years as man's years,

  • Ps 92:7
    71%

    7though the wicked spring up as the grass, and all the evildoers flourish, they will be destroyed forever.

  • Ps 89:47
    71%

    47Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    71%

    15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

  • Ps 102:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

    4My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.

  • Isa 2:22
    70%

    22Stop trusting in man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for of what account is he?

  • Isa 37:27
    70%

    27Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like a field before its crop has grown.

  • Job 8:9
    70%

    9(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.)

  • Job 7:1
    70%

    1"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?

  • Ps 104:29
    69%

    29You hide your face: they are troubled; you take away their breath: they die, and return to the dust.

  • Isa 28:4
    69%

    4The fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fertile valley, shall be like the first-ripe fig before the summer; which someone picks and eats as soon as he sees it.

  • Eccl 6:12
    69%

    12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Job 24:24
    69%

    24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

    23Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

  • Luke 12:28
    69%

    28But if this is how God clothes the grass in the field, which today exists, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, how much more will he clothe you, O you of little faith?

  • Job 14:5
    69%

    5Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can't pass;