^{5     [a]}you wash them away;^(A)
They sleep,
    and in the morning they sprout again like an herb.
⁶ In the morning it blooms only to pass away;
    in the evening it is wilted and withered.^[b](B)

^12 (A)My days are like a lengthening shadow;^(B)
    I wither like the grass.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like the grass;
    he blossoms like a flower in the field.^(A)
16 A wind sweeps over it and it is gone;
    its place knows it no more.

² Like a flower that springs up and fades,^(A)
    swift as a shadow that does not abide.

⁷ The grass withers, the flower wilts,
    when the breath of the Lord blows upon it.”
“Yes, the people is grass!