¹² While still growing and uncut,
    they wither more quickly than grass.^(A)

⁶ That person will be like a bush in the wastelands;
    they will not see prosperity when it comes.
They will dwell in the parched places^(A) of the desert,
    in a salt^(B) land where no one lives.

“All people are like grass,
    and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,

⁶ May they be like grass on the roof,^(A)
    which withers^(B) before it can grow;
⁷ a reaper cannot fill his hands with it,^(C)
    nor one who gathers fill his arms.