My days declining as a shadow, and I shall be dried up as grass.
As the shadow according to its declining I was gone: I was shaken off as the locust.
And as a flower he will come forth, and will be cut down: and he will flee as a shadow, and shall not stand.
Man was likened to vanity: his days as a shadow passing away.
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:
(Which know not that of the morrow. For what your life? For it is a steam, appearing for a little, and then invisible.)
And the rich, in his humiliation: for as the flower of the grass he shall pass by.
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?
He will lay me waste round about, and I shall go: and he will remove my hope as a tree.
I The man seeing affliction by the rod of his wrath.