because like the grass, they will soon dry up. Like green plants, they will soon die away.
Wicked people grow like the grass. Evil people seem to do well, but they will be destroyed forever.
We grow up like flowers and then dry up and die. We are like a passing shadow that does not last.
The Scripture says, “All people are like the grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field. The grass dies and the flowers fall,
But, Lord, you will be honored forever.
An evil person has nothing to hope for; the wicked will die like a flame that is put out.