For all flesh {is} as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: {For: or, For that}

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

I, {even} I, {am} he that comforteth you: who {art} thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man {that} shall die, and of the son of man {which} shall be made {as} grass;

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

Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty {is} a fading flower, which {are} on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine! {overcome: Heb. broken}

Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}

And the glorious beauty, which {is} on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, {and} as the hasty fruit before the summer; which {when} he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up. {eateth: Heb. swalloweth}

He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.

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

For all flesh {is} as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: {For: or, For that}

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

I, {even} I, {am} he that comforteth you: who {art} thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man {that} shall die, and of the son of man {which} shall be made {as} grass;

When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; {it is} that they shall be destroyed for ever:

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

But this I say, brethren, the time {is} short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.

And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I {shall} not {be}.

{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

The eye also {which} saw him shall {see him} no more; neither shall his place any more behold him.

How much less {in} them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation {is} in the dust, {which} are crushed before the moth?

That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it {is} man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

Therefore their inhabitants {were} of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were {as} the grass of the field, and {as} the green herb, {as} the grass on the housetops, and {as corn} blasted before it be grown up. {of small...: Heb. short of hand}

For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.