He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass. The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away. For the sun rises with its scorching heat and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. So also will the rich man fade away in the midst of his pursuits.
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good. They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
The righteous flourish like the palm tree and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
that though the wicked sprout like grass and all evildoers flourish, they are doomed to destruction forever;
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence. For all our days pass away under your wrath; we bring our years to an end like a sigh.
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