Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,
As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded. They were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as grain blasted before it is grown up.
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides into the age.
Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withers before it grows up,
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,
My heart is smitten like grass, and withered, for I forget to eat my bread.
Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He too flees as a shadow, and does not continue.
Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.
I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are thou, that thou are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass,
And if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is cast into an oven, will he not much more you, O ye of little faith?