He cometh forth out of his mother's womb, Job 1:21. Like a flower; which quickly groweth up and maketh a fair show, but soon withereth, or is cut down. As a shadow; which being made by the sun, follows its motions, and is in perpetual variation, until at last it quite vanish and disappear.
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Job 14:2
2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.