For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick.

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

Surely man walks in a shadow; nay, he is disquieted in vain; he lays up treasures, and knows not for whom he shall gather them.

I am removed as a shadow in its going down; I am tossed up and down like locusts.

Man is likened unto vanity: his days pass as a shadow.

Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed, and he departs like a shadow, and cannot continue.

For who knows [what is] good for a man in his life, [during] the number of the life of the days of his vanity? And he has spent them as a shadow; for who shall tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

[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.

I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread.

The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.

The grass withers, and the flower fades; but the word of our God abides forever.

but the rich [man] in his humiliation, because as a flower of the field he will pass away.

For "All flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man is as the flower of [the] grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away,