He comes forth like a flower and withers. He flees like a shadow and does not continue.
because “All flesh is as grass, and all the esteem of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,
for we are but of yesterday, and know not, because our days on earth are as a shadow.
when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –
“For we are sojourners and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without permanence.
Man is like a breath, His days like a passing shadow.
My days are like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.
But it shall not be well with the wrong one, nor would he prolong his days as a shadow, because he does not fear before Elohim.
The righteous one flourishes like a palm tree, He grows like a cedar in Leḇ
When the wrong spring up like grass, And all the workers of wickedness blossom, It is for them to be destroyed forever.
‘From morning till evening they are beaten down, they perish forever, with no one regarding.
He shakes off his unripe grape like a vine, and throws off his blossom like an olive tree.
For they soon wither like grass, And fade like green plants.
“See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.
“And now, יהוה, what do I wait for? My expectancy is in You.
Because of the sound of my sighing My bones have cleaved to my flesh.
But You, O יהוה, shall be enthroned forever, And the remembrance of You be to all generations.