He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue.
because “All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,
For we were born yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.
whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, As were all our fathers; Our days on earth are as a shadow, And without hope.
Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow.
My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.
But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree, He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
When the wicked spring up like grass, And when all the workers of iniquity flourish, It is that they may be destroyed forever.
They are broken in pieces from morning till evening; They perish forever, with no one regarding.
He will shake off his unripe grape like a vine, And cast off his blossom like an olive tree.
For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, And wither as the green herb.
Indeed, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my age is as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state is but vapor. Selah
“And now, Lord, what do I wait for? My hope is in You.
Because of the sound of my groaning My bones cling to my skin.
But You, O Lord, shall endure forever, And the remembrance of Your name to all generations.