He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: He fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
For, All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);
whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapor that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
Betwixt morning and evening they are destroyed: They perish for ever without any regarding it.
He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, And shall cast off his flower as the olive-tree.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
Behold, thou hast made my days as handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah
And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee.
By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
But thou, O Jehovah, wilt abide for ever; And thy memorial name unto all generations.