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.

Thou carry them away as with a flood. They are as a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up.

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they shall be destroyed forever,

As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness of it is as the flower of the field.

but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.

men who know not of the morrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little while, and then also vanishes away--

Because all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as a flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower of it falls away,

(for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow).

Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good,

For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.

My days are like a shadow that declines, and I am withered like grass.

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.

In the morning it flourishes, and grows up. In the evening it is cut down, and withers.