“He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.”
"He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not." The images of flower and shadow emphasize human ephemerality and insubstantiality. Blooming and wilting, appearing and vanishing—these are the poles of human existence. Job's point is that human life is so transient and fragile that the intensity of suffering seems disproportionate to the brevity of existence.
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