² He comes out like ^(A)a flower and ^(B)withers;
    he flees like ^(C)a shadow and continues not.

⁹ For we are but of yesterday and know nothing,
    for our days on earth are ^(A)a shadow.

⁶ A voice says, “Cry!”
    And I said,^[a] “What shall I cry?”
^(A)All flesh is grass,
    and all its beauty^[b] 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 (B)The grass withers, the flower fades,
    but the word of our God will stand forever.

^4 (A)Man is like a breath;
    his days are like ^(B)a passing ^(C)shadow.

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