2He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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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: …
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:
(For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:)
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. …
For we are strangers before thee, and sojourners, as were all our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none abiding.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)We are here led to think, I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence we must date both its frailty and its pollution. 1. Its frailty: Man, that is born of a woman, is therefore of few days , Job 14:1. This may refer to the first woman, who was called Eve , because she…
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