While they are still beginning to flower and not ripe for cutting, they can wither away faster than any grass!

You will come to your grave in a full age, As stacks of grain are harvested in their season.

Like a vine he will let his sour grapes fall, and like an olive tree he will shed his blossoms.

just as I was in my most productive time, when God’s intimate friendship was experienced in my tent,

Moreover, the strength of their hands – what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;