...a father pitieth his children : so the LoRD pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame : he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days...he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone : and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the LoRD is from everlasting...

...fading lily, without the sad, yet salutary remembrance, that, " as for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more," Psa. ciii. 15, 16. Yet though our bodies...

...throughout to the language of the text are the Psalmist's words : " As for man, his days are as grass ; as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth : for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone, and the place thereof shall know it no more" (Ps. ciii. 15, 16). In like manner spake Job...

...scripture allusions to the frailty of human life. " He cometh forth as a flower, and is cut down." " As the flower of the field, so he flourisheth ; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone." — There is a melancholy beauty in this imagery thus applied, which at once reaches the...

...a hand-breadth, and mine age is as nothing before thee. As for man,, his days are as grass; as the flower of the field, so he flourisheth; for the wind passeth over it, and it is gone ; and the place thereof shall know it no more."—Bond's " Flower cut down." From the London...

...his pillow, and he went off like an infant going to sleep. "As for man, his days are as grass : as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more," Psa. ciii. 15, 16. Butcher Hancocks was the...

...as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days...he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting...

...move us to thankfulness and grateful remembrance, God says: "As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more." — Vss. 15,16. No wonder God pities us,...

...down to the site. Then Andy read, as a prayer of committal, Psalm 103: 'As his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth./ For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone. . .' We finally left at 4.00 pm. I lingered a bit after the other tour. The last thing...

...exclamations, the psalmist's spiritual reminder to all mankind—"As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. / For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone"—is recast as a more specific comment on the perishability of women's social value: "For...