“Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.”
The swiftness of human life: "You sweep them away; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning." The metaphor of grass—growing in morning light and withered by evening—becomes the paradigm for human brevity. Life is transient like a dream.
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