New King James Version
Psalms 103:15
15As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.
Psalms 103:15 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
- New International Version (NIV)The life of mortals is like grass, they flourish like a flower of the field;
- English Standard Version (ESV)As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field;
- New Living Translation (NLT)Our days on earth are like grass; like wildflowers, we bloom and die.
Context of Psalms 103:15
13As a father pities his children, So the Lord pities those who fear Him. 14For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust. As for man, his days are like grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. 16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more. 17But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting On those who fear Him, And His righteousness to children’s children,
Read all of Psalms 103Psalms 103:15 word by word
אֱ֭נוֹשׁ כֶּחָצִ֣יר יָמָ֑יו כְּצִ֥יץ הַ֝שָּׂדֶ֗ה כֵּ֣ן יָצִֽיץ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 103:15
- Psalms 90:5You carry them away like a flood; They are like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass which grows up:
- Isaiah 40:6The voice said, “Cry out!” And he said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is grass, And all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.
- Isaiah 51:12“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you should be afraid Of a man who will die, And of the son of a man who will be made like grass?
- James 1:10but the rich in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.
- 1 Peter 1:24because “All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, And its flower falls away,
- Job 14:1“Man who is born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.
- Isaiah 28:1Woe to the crown of pride, to the drunkards of Ephraim, Whose glorious beauty is a fading flower Which is at the head of the verdant valleys, To those who are overcome with wine!
- Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea and makes it dry, And dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither, And the flower of Lebanon wilts.
Commentaries on Psalms 103:15
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 15His days are as grass - See the note on Psalm 90:5.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 15As for man - literally, “Man; like the grass are his days!” The thought is fixed on man: man so frail and weak; man, not only made originally of earth, but man delicate, feeble, soon to pass away like the springing grass, or like the fading flower. His days are as grass - See the notes at Psalm 90:5-6; compare Isaiah 40:6-8, notes; 1 Peter 1:24, note. As a flower of the field - As a blossom. It opens with beauty and fragrance, but soon fades and perishes…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-18Verses 15-18 How short is man's life, and uncertain! The flower of the garden is commonly more choice, and will last the longer, for being sheltered by the garden-wall, and the gardener's care; but the flower of the field, to which life is here compared, is not only withering in itself, but exposed to the cold blasts, and liable to be cropt and trod on by the beasts of the field. Such is man. God considers this, and pities him; let him consider it…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 14-16The Lord compassionately cares for weak humans (see Psalm 37:2; 90:5; 92:7; 102:4; Isaiah 40:6–8).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 15-1615-16. So short and frail is life that a breath may destroy it. it is gone--literally, "it is not." know it no more--no more recognize him (Psa 90:6; Is 40:6-8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 103
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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