For according to the height of the heavens above the earth, so has he reinforced his mercy toward those who fear him.
He comes forth like a flower, and is crushed, and he flees, as if a shadow, and never remains in the same state.
He has destroyed me on every side, and I am lost, and, like an uprooted tree, he has taken away my hope.
Generation after generation will praise your works, and they will declare your power.
ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation.
and a rich one, in his humiliation, for he will pass away like the flower of the grass.
consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
For all flesh is like the grass and all its glory is like the flower of the grass. The grass withers and its flower falls away.