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

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

¹⁶ the wind blows^(A) over it and it is gone,
    and its place^(B) remembers it no more.

⁶ A voice says, “Cry out.”
    And I said, “What shall I cry?”

“All people are like grass,^(A)
    and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

⁷ The grass withers^(A) and the flowers fall,
    because the breath^(B) of the Lord blows^(C) on them.
    Surely the people are grass.

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