(even a poor man had grown up with me as if I were his father, and even though I had guided the widow from the time I was born),

Can the paper-reed grow up, without a marsh? Or the rush grow up, without water?

Their young ones grow strong; they grow up in the open; they go forth and do not return to them.

He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

Their children grow up while they're alive, and they live to see their grandchildren.

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

My face has grown red with weeping,
and darkness covers my eyes,

"The lioness may roar, and the lion cub may growl; but even the ivory teeth of the full grown lion are broken.

Full grown lions die when they cannot find prey; that's when the lion cubs are scattered.

Even if its roots have grown ancient in the earth, and its stump begins to rot in the ground,

which are growing dark because of ice upon them, it will pile up snow.

"Why do [the] wicked live, grow old, even grow mighty [in] power?

At thy command goeth an eagle up high? Or lifteth he up his nest?