For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.
Human life is brief and fragile like a flower of the field, gone when the wind passes over it so that its place, the place where the person lived, no longer knows it. The same fading is pictured as grass and its flower disappearing when the wind passes, with the former place knowing them no more. This human transience and mortality stands in contrast to the Lord's everlasting loving-kindness toward those who fear Him set forth in the surrounding verses. That contrast extends to His everlasting mercy and righteousness toward those who fear Him. Worldly ambition is likewise brief, and worldly ambitious statesmen are like that fading grass and flower whose former place no longer knows them, while this testimony about the human condition belongs together with the influence parents may exert over their children.
Human life is brief and fragile like a flower of the field, gone when the wind passes over it so that its place, the place where the person lived, no longer knows it. The same fading is pictured as grass and its flower disappearing when the wind passes, with the former place knowing them no more. This human transience and mortality stands in contrast to the Lord's everlasting loving-kindness toward those who fear Him set forth in the surrounding verses. That contrast extends to His everlasting mercy and righteousness toward those who fear Him. Worldly ambition is likewise brief, and worldly ambitious statesmen are like that fading grass and flower whose former place no longer knows them, while this testimony about the human condition belongs together with the influence parents may exert over their children.