18 Like the leaves flourishing on a thick tree, some it sheds, and some grow, so also are the generations of flesh and blood: one comes to an end and another is born. (WEB)
Sirach 14:18
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Job 14:1–3
1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble. 2 Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure. 3 Do You open Your eyes to one like this? Will You bring him into judgment before You?
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Baruch 3:18–20
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Sirach 30:3–5
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Psalms 103:14–16
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Parables 52:2–3
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1 Peter 1:23–25
23 For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God. 24 For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall, 25 but the word of the L…
Psalms 144:3–5
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