You end their lives;[a] they sleep.(A)
They are like grass that grows in the morning—
in the morning it sprouts and grows;
by evening it withers and dries up.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 90:5 Or You overwhelm them; Hb obscure

Yet you sweep people away(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.(B)

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