Verse 16

but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.

Referenced Verses

• Isa 40:7 : 7 The grass dries up, the flowers wither, when the wind sent by the LORD blows on them. Surely humanity is like grass.
• Job 20:9 : 9 People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.
• Gen 5:24 : 24 Enoch walked with God, and then he disappeared because God took him away.
• Job 7:6-9 : 6 My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope. 7 Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness. 8 The eye of him who sees me now will see me no more; your eyes will look for me, but I will be gone. 9 As a cloud is dispersed and then disappears, so the one who goes down to the grave does not come up again. 10 He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.
• Job 8:18-19 : 18 If he is uprooted from his place, then that place will disown him, saying,‘I have never seen you!’ 19 Indeed, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth others spring up.
• Job 14:10 : 10 But man dies and is powerless; he expires– and where is he?
• Job 27:20-21 : 20 Terrors overwhelm him like a flood; at night a whirlwind carries him off. 21 The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.