2  He comes out ^klike a flower and withers;

he flees like a shadow and continues not.

3  You ^sreturn man to dust

and say, “Return, O children of man!”¹

4  For ^ta thousand years in your sight

are but as yesterday when it is past,

or as a watch in the night.

5  You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream,

like grass that is renewed in the morning:

6  in the morning it flourishes and is renewed;

in the evening it fades and withers.

11  My days are like an evening ^fshadow;

I wither away like grass.

15  As for man, his days are like grass;

he flourishes like a flower of the field;

6  A voice says, “Cry!”

And I said,¹ “What shall I cry?”

^lAll flesh is grass,

and all its beauty² is like the flower of the field.

7  The grass withers, the flower fades

when the breath of the Lord blows on it;

surely the people are grass.

8  The grass withers, the flower fades,

but the word of our God will stand forever.

12  “I, I am he who comforts you;

who are you that you are ^tafraid of man who dies,

of the son of man who is made ^ulike grass,

^s“All flesh is like grass

and all its glory like the flower of grass.

The grass withers,

and the flower falls,