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

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

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

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

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;

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.

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

⁶ The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field.

⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people is grass.

⁸ The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

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?

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

⁴ My heart is blighted like grass, and withered, For I forget to eat my bread.

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.