Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man, even though standing tall, is total vanity. Selah.

You correct a man for iniquity with rebukes, and you make his desires vanish away like a moth. Surely every man is vanity. Selah.

Like sheep they are appointed to the grave; death shall shepherd them, and the upright shall have the rule over them in the morning; their form is consumed; Sheol is their home.

Do not put your trust in princes, nor in a son of man, in whom there is no help.

His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Those who see you shall stare at you and consider diligently, saying, Is this the man who made the earth to tremble; who shook kingdoms;

So it happened that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried.

And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

For no sooner has the sun risen with a burning heat than it withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beautiful appearance perishes. Thus the rich man also will fade away in his pursuits.

But if they do not obey, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

A man with honor, but lacking understanding, is like the animals that perish.

Leave off from such a man, whose breath is in his nostril; for how is he to be accounted?

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul will be required of you; then whose will those things be which you have prepared?