but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.
But man dies and is powerless; he expires – and where is he?
People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
A voice says, “Cry out!” Another asks, “What should I cry out?” The first voice responds: “All people are like grass, and all their promises are like the flowers in the field.
The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the Lord blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.