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.

³ For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a firebrand.

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

²⁴ For, "All flesh is like grass, And all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

¹ "Man, who is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.

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

¹⁷ The world is passing away with its lusts, but he who does God's will remains forever.

⁶ My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And are spent without hope.

⁷ Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye shall no more see good.

²⁵ "Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away, they see no good,

²⁶ They have passed away as the swift ships, As the eagle that swoops on the prey.

¹⁰ and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.

⁷ But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.

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