(A)He comes forth like a flower and fades away;
He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

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

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You carry them away like a flood;
(A)They are like a sleep.
In the morning (B)they are like grass which grows up:

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Yet you sweep people away(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

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In the morning it flourishes and grows up;
In the evening it is cut down and withers.

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In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.(A)

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When (A)the wicked [a]spring up like grass,
And when all the workers of iniquity flourish,
It is that they may be destroyed forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 92:7 sprout

that though the wicked spring up like grass
    and all evildoers flourish,
    they will be destroyed forever.(A)

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11 For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. So the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

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11 For the sun rises with scorching heat(A) and withers(B) the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed.(C) In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.

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