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.

But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false, so as to be deceitful in the balances; they are all alike, [formed] out of vanity.

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

But as [for] them that dwell in houses of clay, of whom we also are formed of the same clay, He smites them like a moth.

For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived, and full of wrath.

Have You not taken account even of him, and caused him to enter into judgment before You?

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

I beheld all the works that were done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher; all is vanity.

My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass.

[As for] man, his days are like grass; as a flower of the field, so shall he flourish.

For the wind passes over it, and it shall not be; and it shall know its place no more.

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

For we shall surely die, and be as water poured upon the earth, which shall not be gathered up, and God shall take the life, even as He devises to thrust forth from Him His outcast.

for we are strangers before You, and sojourners, as all our fathers [were]; our days upon the earth [are] as a shadow, and there is no remaining.

(for we are of yesterday, and know nothing; for our life upon the earth is a shadow:)

But it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, [which are but] a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.