He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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Gill's Exposition
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down,.... As the flower comes from the earth, so does man; as it comes out of the stalk, so man out of his mother's womb; as the flower flourishes for a…
Barnes' Notes
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down - Nothing can be more obvious and more beautiful than this, and the image has been employed by writers in all ages, but nowhere with more beauty, or with…
We are here led to think,
I. Of the original of human life. God is indeed its great original, for he breathed into man the breath of life and in him we live; but we date it from our birth, and thence…
Cambridge Bible
and is cut down Rather, and withereth, cf. similar figures Isa 40:6 seq.; Psa 37:2; Psa 90:6; Psa 103:15 seq.
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