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

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

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;

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

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.

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

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

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

¹⁵ For 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 abiding.

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

¹⁴ Whereas 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.

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.

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

²⁵ "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

²⁶ They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.

¹³ But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

¹² The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree. He will grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

⁷ Though the wicked spring up as the grass, And all the evil-doers flourish, They will be destroyed forever.

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.

⁷ For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.

⁸ You have set our iniquities before you, Our secret sins in the light of your presence.

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