²³ I am gone like the shade when it is stretched out: I am forced out of my place like a locust.

¹⁹ And the Lord sent a very strong west wind, which took up the locusts, driving them into the Red Sea; not one locust was to be seen in any part of Egypt.

¹³ And Moses' rod was stretched out over the land of Egypt, and the Lord sent an east wind over the land all that day and all the night; and in the morning the locusts came up with the east wind.

¹⁵ For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

² He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

¹⁰ Because of your passion and your wrath, for I have been lifted up and then made low by you.

¹¹ My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.

⁴ Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

¹² Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

¹³ But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.

¹⁴ When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.