Proverbia 103:15

Nova Vulgata

Homo: sicut fenum dies eius, tamquam flos agri sic efflorebit.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Et vinum l�tificet cor hominis ; ut exhilaret faciem in oleo, et panis cor hominis confirmet.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
et vinum l�tificet cor hominis:
ut exhilaret faciem in oleo,
et panis cor hominis confirmet.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

his days: Psalms 90:5, Psalms 90:6, Isaiah 40:6-8, Isaiah 51:12, James 1:10, James 1:11, 1 Peter 1:24

a flower: Job 14:1-3, Isaiah 28:1, Isaiah 28:4, Nahum 1:4

Reciprocal: Job 4:19 - crushed Job 7:6 - swifter Job 7:21 - but I shall not be Job 10:20 - my days few Job 14:2 - like Job 20:9 - The eye Psalms 92:7 - wicked Psalms 144:4 - his days Ecclesiastes 6:10 - and it Isaiah 37:27 - as the grass of Luke 8:42 - and she 1 Corinthians 7:29 - the time

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As for man, his days are as grass,.... He himself is like the grass which springs out of the earth; continues on it for a time, and then drops into it; the continuance of the grass is very short, it flourishes in the morning, is cut down at evening, and withers; see

Psalms 90:5. As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth; which denotes the goodliness of man, and describes him in his best estate, as possessed of health, riches, honour, and all the gifts and endowments of nature; and yet, with all these, is only like a field flower, exposed to every wind, liable to be cropped by every hand, and to be trampled upon by the beasts of the field; and therefore flourishes not long: so very precarious and uncertain is man in his most flourishing circumstances; see Isaiah 40:6.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

As 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 Psalms 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.

So he flourisheth - Rather, “So he blossoms.” That is, he is like a flower that is fresh and beautiful, and that soon withers away.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 103:15. His days are as grass — Psalms 90:5.