"He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not."
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Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down; and he fleeth as a shadow, and continueth not.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.
As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.