^{3 Ref} Thou turnest man to destruction, And sayest, Return, ye children of men.

^{4 Ref} For a thousand years in thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past, And as a watch in the night.

^{5 Ref} Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.

^{6 Ref} In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.

^{7 Ref} For we are consumed in thine anger, And in thy wrath are we troubled.

^{8 Ref} Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, Our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.

^{9 Ref} For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: We bring our years to an end as a sigh.

^{10 Ref} The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

^{11 Ref} Who knoweth the power of thine anger, And thy wrath according to the fear that is due unto thee?