“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
²⁵     but the word of the Lord endures forever.”^[a](A)

² They spring up like flowers^(A) and wither away;^(B)
    like fleeting shadows,^(C) they do not endure.^(D)

¹¹ My days are like the evening shadow;^(A)
    I wither^(B) away like grass.

¹⁵ The life of mortals is like grass,^(A)
    they flourish like a flower^(B) of the field;