Verse 2
2. Like a flower But as for the flowers and their perfumes, nature has given them birth but for a day a mighty lesson to man. (PLINY, Hist., xxi, chap. 1.) The flower rises from the dark recesses of its mother earth; so man cometh forth from eternity, which in like manner is עולם , hidden and dark. Ever frail and perishable, they both abide, for a little while, the sport of change and storm, and at last sink into the unknown whence they came. (Compare Ecclesiastes 6:4.)
Is cut down Withereth. Aristotle defined man to be “the spoil of time,” and St. Augustine compares his frailty to the fragility of glass.
A shadow “What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue.” Edmund Burke. (See note Job 4:19.)
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