Bible in Basic English
"He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again."
— Job 14:2, Bible in Basic English
“He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”
As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?
If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.
If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;