¹² For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

² As a flower he hath gone forth, and is cut off, And he fleeth as a shadow and standeth not.

¹⁴ who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

²⁴ My portion `is' Jehovah, hath my soul said, Therefore I hope for Him.

²⁵ Good `is' Jehovah to those waiting for Him, To the soul `that' seeketh Him.

²⁶ Good! when one doth stay and stand still For the salvation of Jehovah.

²⁷ Good for a man that he beareth a yoke in his youth.

²² And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

⁵ Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah.

⁶ Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

⁴ Man to vanity hath been like, His days `are' as a shadow passing by.

⁷ For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?

¹³ And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.

⁸ He hath declared to thee, O man, what `is' good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except -- to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

¹³ The end of the whole matter let us hear: -- `Fear God, and keep His commands, for this `is' the whole of man.

⁶ Their love also, their hatred also, their envy also, hath already perished, and they have no more a portion to the age in all that hath been done under the sun.

³ I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

²³ As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.

⁹ (For of yesterday we `are', and we know not, For a shadow `are' our days on earth.)

²¹ Honoured are his sons, and he knoweth not; And they are little, and he attendeth not to them.

⁶ Many are saying, `Who doth show us good?' Lift on us the light of Thy face, O Jehovah,

⁵ Jehovah `is' the portion of my share, and of my cup, Thou -- Thou dost uphold my lot.

¹⁵ I -- in righteousness, I see Thy face; I am satisfied, in awaking, `with' Thy form!

⁴ He doth choose for us our inheritance, The excellency of Jacob that He loves. Selah.

⁴⁷ Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

¹⁰ Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.

¹¹ Who knoweth the power of Thine anger? And according to Thy fear -- Thy wrath?

¹² To number our days aright let `us' know, And we bring the heart to wisdom.

¹¹ My days as a shadow `are' stretched out, And I -- as the herb I am withered.

¹⁵ for sojourners we `are' before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow `are' our days on the land, and there is none abiding.