And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers: as a shadow our days upon the earth, and no expectation.
He will shake off as a vine his unripe grapes, and he will cast his flower as the olive.
From morning to evening they will be struck; from not setting to superintend they will perish.
(For yesterday are we and we shall not know, for our days upon earth are a shadow:)
My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
And thou, O Jehovah, wilt remain forever; and thy remembrance to generation And generation.
From the voice of my groaning my bone did cleave to my flesh.
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
For as grass hastening they shall be cut down, and as the greenness of grass they shall fall away.
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
And now, what waited I for, O Jehovah? my hope it is to thee.
The just one shall flourish as the palm tree: he shall become great as the cedar in Lebanon.
In the putting forth of the unjust as grass, and all working iniquity shall flourish; to destroy them even to forever:
And it shall not be good to the unjust one; he shall not lengthen the days as a shadow, for he feared not from before the face of God.
(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)
For all flesh as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass dried up, and the flower fell out: