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

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

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

⁹ (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

⁸ All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

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 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

² All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

¹⁵ As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

¹⁶ The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

⁴⁷ See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

⁹ Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

¹¹ By the weight of your wrath against man's sin, the glory of his form is wasted away; truly every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

⁵ You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

⁶ Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

¹ As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

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

³ Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

¹⁹ How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;

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.

¹⁴ For death comes to us all, and we are like water drained out on the earth, which it is not possible to take up again; and God will not take away the life of the man whose purpose is that he who has been sent away may not be completely cut off from him.