²⁴ No sooner are they planted,
    no sooner are they sown,
    no sooner do they take root^(A) in the ground,
than he blows^(B) on them and they wither,^(C)
    and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.^(D)

⁵ Yet you sweep people away^(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:

⁶ In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.^(A)