Psalms 102:11
My days are like lengthening shadows, and I wither away like grass.
BSB
ASV
My days are like a shadow that declineth; And I am withered like grass.
KJV
My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
My days have declined like a shadow. If my days, how much more my nights? that is, if the light, how much more the darkness? And I have withered like grass. For as grass, so man passes away, and is dried up.
My days are like a shadow that declineth. His days were but a shadow at best, but now they seem to be like a shadow which was passing away. A shadow is unsubstantial enough, how feeble a thing must a declining shadow be? No expression could more forcibly set forth his extreme feebleness. And I am withered like grass. He was like grass, blasted by a parching wind, or cut down with a scythe, and then left to be dried up by the burning heat of the sun.
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1 Peter 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
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A voice says, “Cry out!” And I asked, “What should I cry out?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field.
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As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
Through
Job 14:2Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
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For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
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For we were born yesterday and know nothing; our days on earth are but a shadow.
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You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
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As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;
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James 1:10But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
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Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.