Psalm 103:15 {102:15}
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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.

Lexicon
As for man,
אֱ֭נוֹשׁ (’ĕ·nō·wōš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

his days
יָמָ֑יו (yā·māw)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day

are like grass—
כֶּחָצִ֣יר (ke·ḥā·ṣîr)
Preposition-k, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2682: Green grass, herbage

he blooms
יָצִֽיץ׃ (yā·ṣîṣ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6692: To twinkle, glance, to blossom

like a flower
כְּצִ֥יץ (kə·ṣîṣ)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6731: Glistening, a burnished plate, a flower, a wing

of the field;
הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה (haś·śā·ḏeh)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7704: Field, land


Additional Translations
As for man, his days are like grass—he blooms like a flower of the field;As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

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

As for man, his days are as grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

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

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

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. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

Mortal man! as grass are his days, As a flower of the field so he flourisheth;
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