My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.
He will lay me waste round about, and I shall go: and he will remove my hope as a tree.
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
For who shall know what is for man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he will make them as a shadow? for who shall announce to man what shall be after him under the sun?
I The man seeing affliction by the rod of his wrath.
And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.
(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: