Job 14:2

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He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

You will sweep them away while they are asleep by morning they are like growing grass.

Though the wicked sprout like grass; and all who practice iniquity flourish, it is they who will be eternally destroyed.

A person's life is like grass it blossoms like wild flowers,

A voice says, "Cry out!" So I asked, "What am I to cry out?" "All humanity is grass, and all its loyalty is like the flowers of the field.

and a rich person in his having been humbled, because he will fade away like a wild flower.

You do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.

For "All human life is like grass, and all its glory is like a flower in the grass. The grass dries up and the flower drops off,

Because we are of yesterday and we know nothing, for our time on earth is only a shadow.

"My days pass faster than a runner; but they pass quickly without seeing anything good.

For we are aliens and vagrants in your presence, as were all of our ancestors. Our days on the earth pass away like shadows, and we have no hope.

My life is like a declining shadow, and I am withering like a plant.

The human person is a mere empty breath; his days are like a fading shadow.

But things will not go well for the wicked person: he will not lengthen his life like a shadow, since he has no fear before God.

In the morning it blossoms and is renewed, but toward evening, it fades and withers.