for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the Lord blows on it; surely the people are grass.
The eye that saw him will see him no more, nor will his place any more behold him.
But a man dies and is laid low; man breathes his last, and where is he?
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope. “Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good. The eye of him who sees me will behold me no more; while your eyes are on me, I shall be gone. As the cloud fades and vanishes, so he who goes down to Sheol does not come up; he returns no more to his house, nor does his place know him anymore.
Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
Terrors overtake him like a flood; in the night a whirlwind carries him off. The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
If he is destroyed from his place, then it will deny him, saying, ‘I have never seen you.’ Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the soil others will spring.
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