For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.

For they wither quickly like grass and wilt like tender plants.

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

You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

As for man, his days are like grass— he blooms like a flower of the field;

He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the service of man: that he may bring forth food out of the earth;

He makes the grass grow for the livestock and provides crops for man to cultivate, bringing forth food from the earth:

Let them be as the grass upon the housetops, which withereth afore it groweth up:

May they be like grass on the rooftops, which withers before it can grow,

Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains.

who covers the sky with clouds, who prepares rain for the earth, who makes grass to grow on the hills.