New Revised Standard Version
comes up like a flower and withers, flees like a shadow and does not last.

Contemporary English Version
We are flowers that fade and shadows that vanish.

New American Bible
Like a flower that springs up and fades, swift as a shadow that does not abide.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

Who cometh forth like a flower, and is destroyed, and fleeth as a shadow, and never continueth in the same state.

like

Psalm 90:5-9 Things that are counted nothing, shall their years be. . . .

Psalm 92:7,12 When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall appear: That they may perish for ever and ever: . . .

Psalm 103:15,16 Man's days are as grass, as the flower of the field so shall he flourish. . . .

Isaiah 40:6-8 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field. . . .

James 1:10,11 And the rich, in his being low: because as the flower of the grass shall he pass away. . . .

James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow.

1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass and all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass is withered and the flower thereof is fallen away.

fleeth

Job 8:9 (For we are but of yesterday, and are ignorant that our days upon earth are but a shadow)

Job 9:25,26 My days have been swifter than a post: they have fled away and have not seen good. . . .

1 Chronicles 29:15 For we are sojourners before thee, and strangers, as were all our fathers. I Our days upon earth are as a shadow, and there is no stay.

Psalm 102:11 My days have declined like a shadow, and I am withered like grass.

Psalm 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days pass away like a shadow.

Ecclesiastes 8:13 But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.