And my life is lighter than a word, and has perished in vain hope.

Remember then that my life is breath, and my eye shall not yet again see good.

So the horsemen went forth with haste to perform the king's commands; and the ordinance was also published in Susa.

Behold, You have made my days old; and my existence [is] as nothing before You; indeed, every man living [is] altogether vanity. Pause.

You chasten man with rebukes for iniquity, and You make his life to consume away like a spider's web; nay, every man is disquieted in vain. Pause.

Remember what my being is; for have You created all the sons of men in vain?

For all our days are gone, and we have passed away in Your wrath; our years have spun out their tale as a spider.

[As for] the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if [men should be] in strength, eighty years; and the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

[you] who do not know [what will] happen tomorrow. For what is your life? For it will be a vapor that appears for a little [time], but then also disappears.