Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. (Isaiah 40:24)
The supposedly great men of earth are hardly better than the grass that withers or the flower that fades (v. 8). They vanish away when the Lord, as it were, blows upon them (v. 7).