Psalms 103:15
As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
KJV
et vinum lætificet cor hominis : ut exhilaret faciem in oleo, et panis cor hominis confirmet.
Vulgate
καὶ οἶνος εὐφραίνει καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου, τοῦ ἱλαρῦναι πρόσωπον ἐν ἐλαίῳ, καὶ ἄρτος καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου στηρίζει.
LXX
As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
ASV
אֱ֭נוֹשׁ כֶּ/חָצִ֣יר יָמָ֑י/ו כְּ/צִ֥יץ הַ֝/שָּׂדֶ֗ה כֵּ֣ן יָצִֽיץ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
אֱנ֣וֹשׁ
'nvsh
noun · 41×
חֲצִ֣יר
chtsyr
noun · 21×
יָצִ֥יץ
ytsyts
verb · 8×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
כֵ֗ן
kn
adjective · 767×
צִ֥יץ
tsyts
noun · 14×
שָּׂדֶ֔ה
shdh
noun · 334×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Source. Translated by J. Walker, J. Sheppard and H. Browne, and revised by George B. Stevens. From Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series, Vol. 11. Edited by Philip Schaff. (Buffalo, NY: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1889.) Revised and edited for New Advent by Kevin Knight. <https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/210228.htm>. Contact information. The editor of New Adven…
Summa Theologica · 2 passages
Does grace imply something in the soul? Is grace a quality? Does grace differ from infused virtue? The subject of grace Article 1. Whether grace implies anything in the soul? Objection 1. It would seem that grace does not imply anything in the soul. For man is said to have the grace of God even as the grace of man. Hence it is written (Genesis 39:21) that the Lord gave to Josep…
Is the Body of Christ in this sacrament truly, or figuratively? Do the substance of bread and wine remain in this sacrament after the consecration? Is it annihilated? Is it changed into the body and blood of Christ? Do the accidents remain after the change? Does the substantial form remain there? Is this change instantaneous? Is it more miraculous than any other change?}--> By …
Cross-references
- 1Cor 7:29 — But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
- 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
- 1Pet 1:24 — For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
- Isa 28:1 — Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, whose glorious beauty is a fading flower, which are on the head of the fat valleys of them that are overcome with wine!
- Isa 28:4 — And the glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley, shall be a fading flower, and as the hasty fruit before the summer; which when he that looketh upon it seeth, while it is yet in his ha
- Isa 40:6 — The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
- Isa 40:6 — The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
- Isa 51:12 — I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
- Isa 51:12 — I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass;
- Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
- Jas 1:10 — But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.
- Job 7:6 — My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.
- Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Job 14:2 — He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
- Nah 1:4 — He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
- Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Ps 90:5 — Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
- Ps 92:7 — When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever: