For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone - Margin, as in Hebrew, “it is not.” The reference is either to a hot and burning wind…

The wind — that is, the hot, scorching blast, as in Isaiah 40:7. Even in our humid climate, it may be said of a flower—

“If…

For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.

As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flour…

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone
A stormy wind, as the Targum, which tears it up by its roots, or blows …

How short is man's life, and how uncertain! The flower of the garden is commonly finer and will last longer, because it is sheltered by the garden …