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 hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.

When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity -- For their being destroyed for ever and ever!

Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;

A voice is saying, 'Call,' And he said, 'What do I call?' All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is As a flower of the field:

and the rich in his becoming low, because as a flower of grass he shall pass away;

who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

because all flesh is as grass, and all glory of man as flower of grass; wither did the grass, and the flower of it fell away,

(For of yesterday we are, and we know not, For a shadow are our days on earth.)

My days have been swifter than a runner, They have fled, they have not seen good,

for sojourners we are before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow are our days on the land, and there is none abiding.

My days as a shadow are stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

Man to vanity hath been like, His days are as a shadow passing by.

And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.