Yet you sweep people away(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

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Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

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In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.(A)

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In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

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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.

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The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:

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24 For,

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

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24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

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10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.(A)

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10 But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

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11 For the sun rises with scorching heat(A) and withers(B) the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed.(C) In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.

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11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

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