As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes. For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.
⛓ Read Psalm 103 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field, for the wind passes over it, and it is gone.' James's image of the rich man fading like a flower scorched and blown away closely parallels this Psalm's meditation on human transience.
High confidenceEcho3
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; the wind passes over it and it is gone' is a parallel grass/flower-frailty topos reinforcing the Isaiah 40 quotation. Moderate volume; same withering-flower imagery.
Medium confidence'As for man, his days are like grass... the wind passes over it and it is gone' echoes the perishable grass clothed by God yet cast into the oven. The grass-as-human-frailty motif coheres with the call not to be anxious.
Medium confidence'As for man, his days are like grass... the wind passes over it, and it is gone' — reinforces the perishable grass imagery applied to the field's clothing.
Low confidence