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:

As a dream when {one} awaketh; {so}, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

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}

{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

Which were cut down out of time, whose foundation was overflown with a flood: {whose...: Heb. a flood was poured upon their foundation}

Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

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

And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle {that} hasteth to the prey. {swift...: or, ships of Ebeh: Heb. ships of desire}

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, {even} the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

Who {is} this {that} cometh up as a flood, whose waters are moved as the rivers?

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

Whereas ye know not what {shall be} on the morrow. For what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. {It...: or, For it is}

For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

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}

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;

He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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:

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:

But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.

I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts. {that God...: or, that they might clear God, and see, etc}

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

But we are all as an unclean {thing}, and all our righteousnesses {are} as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

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

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

As a dream when {one} awaketh; {so}, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding {it}. {destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces}

Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, {shall he} not much more {clothe} you, O ye of little faith?

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

What {is} my strength, that I should hope? and what {is} mine end, that I should prolong my life?

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}

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

Who can bring a clean {thing} out of an unclean? not one. {can...: Heb. will give}