Psalm 103:15 {102:15}
Good News Translation
As for us, our life is like grass. We grow and flourish like a wild flower;

New Revised Standard Version
As for mortals, their days are like grass; they flourish like a flower of the field;

Contemporary English Version
We humans are like grass or wild flowers that quickly bloom.

New American Bible
As for man, his days are like the grass; he blossoms like a flower in the field.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.

his days

Psalm 90:5,6 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

Isaiah 51:12 I myself will comfort you: who art thou, that thou shouldst be afraid of a mortal man, and of the son of man, who shall wither away like grass?

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

a flower

Job 14:1-3 Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries. . . .

Isaiah 28:1,4 Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower the glory his joy, who were on the head of the fat valley, staggering with wine. . . .

Nahum 1:4 He rebuketh the sea and drieth it up: and bringeth all the rivers to be a desert. Basan languisheth and Carmel: and the flower of Libanus fadeth away.

Context
Bless the LORD, O My Soul
14For he knoweth our frame. He remembereth that we are dust: 15Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish.16For the spirit shall pass in him, and he shall not be: and he shall know his place no more.…
Cross References
James 1:10
And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away.

James 1:11
For the sun rose with a burning heat and parched the grass: and the flower thereof fell off, and the beauty of the shape thereof perished. So also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

1 Peter 1:24
For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

Job 14:2
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Psalm 90:5
Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be.

Isaiah 40:6
The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.

Psalm 103:14
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