Holy Scripture
Job 14:1
A church father on this verse
“Man, who is born of a woman, "has a short life," because he has been ordered to return to the earth. With regard to the expression "full of wrath," Job thinks about that moment in which man received the order to observe the commandment but transgressed it. And therefore "like a flower that has finished blooming, he fe…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
1For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived, and full of wrath.
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In context
— Job 14:1 —
2Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; And he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.
3Hast thou not taken account even of him, And caused him to enter into judgment before thee?