KJV King James Version
[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
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Psalm 103:15
[As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;
WEB World English Bible
As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
ASV American Standard Version
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
Surrounding context — Psalm 103
12 As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he removed our transgressions from us.
13 Like as a father pitieth [his] children, [so] the LORD pitieth them that fear him.
14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we [are] dust.
15 [As for] man, his days [are] as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
17 But the mercy of the LORD [is] from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children’s children;
18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his commandments to do them.
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1 Peter 1:24For 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:James 1:10-11But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.Isaiah 51:12I, [even] I, [am] he that comforteth you: who [art] thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man [that] shall die, and of the son of man [which] shall be made [as] grass;Isaiah 40:6-8The 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:Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty [is] a fading flower, which [are] on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!Job 14:1-3Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.Nahum 1:4He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.Psalm 90:5-6Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.Isaiah 28:4And the glorious beauty, which [is] on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, [and] as the hasty fruit before the summer; which [when] he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his hand he eateth it up.
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