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He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn`t continue.
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A Flower and a Shadow
Commentators explain that Job uses two powerful images to describe human life. Like a flower, life can be beautiful and vibrant, but it is fragile and can be 'cut down' suddenly. Like a shadow, life is insubstantial and fleeting. One scholar specifies it's like the shadow of a bird in flight—here one moment and gone the next, never truly still.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down As the flower comes from the earth, so does man; as it comes out of t…
Job enlarges upon the condition of man, addressing himself also to God. Every man of Adam's fallen race is short-lived. All his show of beauty, hap…
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13th Century
Catholic
Since this last point is particularly valuable for investigating the truth, he insists on clarifying it further. He now applies what he had said ab…