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

He comes forth like a flower and fades away; He flees like a shadow and does not continue.

"LORD, make me to know my end, And what [is] the measure of my days, [That] I may know how frail I [am.]

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.

You carry them away [like] a flood; [They are] like a sleep. In the morning they are like grass [which] grows up:

For we have been consumed by Your anger, And by Your wrath we are terrified.

For all our days have passed away in Your wrath; We finish our years like a sigh.

[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.

For who knows what [is] good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun?

Whatever your hand finds to do, do [it] with your might; for [there is] no work or device or knowledge or wisdom in the grave where you are going.

And [do] this, knowing the time, that now [it is] high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation [is] nearer than when we [first] believed.

The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light.

Therefore let us go forth to Him, outside the camp, bearing His reproach.

For here we have no continuing city, but we seek the one to come.

But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in your prayers.

But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day [is] as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

The Lord is not slack concerning [His] promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.

And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

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

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all.

For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.

Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants.

And it shall be: As with the people, so with the priest; As with the servant, so with his master; As with the maid, so with her mistress; As with the buyer, so with the seller; As with the lender, so with the borrower; As with the creditor, so with the debtor.

The voice said, "Cry out!" And he said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh [is] grass, And all its loveliness [is] like the flower of the field.

The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."

Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit";

Instead you [ought] to say, "If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that."

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