He comes forth like a flower and withers; he also flees like a shadow and does not stand.
Because “all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of grass; the grass was dried, and its flower fell off,
for we are but of yesterday, and we do not know, because our days on earth are a shadow.
who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a mist, which for a little is appearing, and then disappearing. Ps. 94:11
for we are strangers before You, and settlers, like all our fathers; our days on the land are like a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Man is like to vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes.
My days are like a shadow stretched out, and I wither like grass.
But it shall not be good for the wicked one; and he shall not prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
The righteous one shall flourish as the palm tree; he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
When the wicked ones flourish like grass, and all the evildoers blossom, it is for them to be destroyed forever.
They are beaten from morning till evening; they perish forever with no one regarding.
he shall shake off its unripe grape as the vine; and he shall cast its flower like the olive.
for they soon wither like grass and fade like the green herb.
Behold, like a handbreadth You gave my days; even my life was non-existence before You; surely every man standing is all vanity. Selah.
And now what do I await, Lord? My hope is in You.
Because of the voice of my sighing, my bones cleave to my flesh.
But You, O Jehovah, shall dwell forever, and Your memory to generation and generation.