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

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

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.)

⁸ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!

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

¹⁴ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

² "Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."

¹⁵ As for man, his days are like grass. As a flower of the field, so he flourishes.

¹⁶ For the wind passes over it, and it is gone. Its place remembers it no more.

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

⁹ Surely men of low degree are just a breath, And men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.

¹¹ When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, You consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath." Selah.

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.

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.

³ Do you open your eyes on such a one, And bring me into judgment with you?

¹⁹ How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

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.

¹⁴ For we must needs die, and are as water split on the ground, which can't be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.