¹² For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

² He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

¹⁴ Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

²⁴ Yahweh is my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

²⁵ Yahweh is good to those who wait for him, to the soul that seeks him.

²⁶ It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Yahweh.

²⁷ It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

²² Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

⁵ Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath." Selah.

⁶ "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

⁴ Man is like a breath. His days are like a shadow that passes away.

⁷ For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?

¹³ But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God.

⁸ He has shown you, O man, what is good. What does Yahweh require of you, but to act justly, To love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?

¹³ This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.

⁶ Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

³ I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.

²³ I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.

⁹ (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days on earth are a shadow.)

²¹ His sons come to honor, and he doesn't know it; They are brought low, but he doesn't perceive it of them.

⁶ Many say, "Who will show us any good?" Yahweh, let the light of your face shine on us.

⁵ Yahweh assigned my portion and my cup. You made my lot secure.

¹⁵ As for me, I shall see your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form.

⁴ He chooses our inheritance for us, The glory of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

⁴⁷ Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!

¹⁰ The days of our years are seventy, Or even by reason of strength eighty years; Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, For it passes quickly, and we fly away.

¹¹ Who knows the power of your anger, Your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?

¹² So teach us to number our days, That we may gain a heart of wisdom.

¹¹ My days are like a long shadow. I have withered like grass.

¹⁵ For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no abiding.