Indeed, You have made my days [as] handbreadths, And my age [is] as nothing before You; Certainly every man at his best state [is] but vapor. Selah

Surely every man walks about like a shadow; Surely they busy themselves in vain; He heaps up [riches,] And does not know who will gather them.

Surely men of low degree [are] a vapor, Men of high degree [are] a lie; If they are weighed on the scales, They [are] altogether [lighter] than vapor.

Remember how short my time is; For what futility have You created all the children of men?

How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, [Who] are crushed before a moth?

"Man [who is] born of woman Is of few days and full of trouble.

And do You open Your eyes on such a one, And bring me to judgment with Yourself?

"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all [is] vanity."

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all [is] vanity and grasping for the wind.

"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher, "All [is] vanity."

My days [are] like a shadow that lengthens, And I wither away like grass.

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

For the wind passes over it, and it is gone, And its place remembers it no more.

I am gone like a shadow when it lengthens; I am shaken off like a locust.

"For we will surely die and [become] like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. Yet God does not take away a life; but He devises means, so that His banished ones are not expelled from Him.

For we [are] aliens and pilgrims before You, As [were] all our fathers; Our days on earth [are] as a shadow, And without hope.

For we [were born] yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth [are] a shadow.

But it will not be well with the wicked; nor will he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow, because he does not fear before God.