He comes forth like a flower, and withers; he also flees as a shadow, and does not stand.
For we are strangers before You, and pilgrims, as our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and none abides.
He shall shake off its unripe grape, as the vine; and shall cast off his flower like the olive.
They are destroyed from morning till evening; they perish forever without anyone caring.
for we are but of yesterday and know nothing, because our days on earth are a shadow.
My days are like a shadow stretched out; and I wither like grass.
But You, O Jehovah, shall endure forever; and Your memory to all generations.
Because of the voice of my groaning, my bones hold fast to my skin.
Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away.
For they shall soon wither like the grass; and fade as the green herb.
Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah.
And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.
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 blossom, it is that they shall be destroyed forever;
But it shall not be well with the wicked, nor shall he make his days longer like a shadow; because he does not fear before God.
who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,