He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down: he flees also as a shadow, and continues not.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower thereof falls away:
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
Whereas you know not what shall be tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
For we are strangers before you, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: 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 passes away.
My days are like a shadow that declines; 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 fears 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 forever:
They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish forever without any regarding it.
He shall shake off his unripe grapes like the vine, and shall cast off his blossom like the olive.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Behold, you have made my days as a handbreadth; and my age is as nothing before you: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
And now, Lord, what do I wait for? my hope is in you.
Because of the voice of my groaning my bones cling to my skin.
But you, O LORD, shall endure forever; and your remembrance unto all generations.