Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning [they are] like grass [which] groweth up.
Ver. 5. Thou carriest them away as with a flood] Suddenly, violently, irresistibly, by particular judgments, besides that general necessity of dying once, Hebrews 9:27. This is set forth by a treble comparison, of floods, sleep, and flowers here; and indeed the vanity and misery of man's life is such, as cannot sufficiently be set forth by any similitudes. See Psalms 90:9,10 .
They are as a sleep] Or dream; the dream of a shadow (σκιας οναρ), saith Pindarus, the shadow of smoke, saith another.
They are like grass] An ordinary comparison, Isa 40:6 Jam 1:10-11