Whereas ye know not what {shall be} on the morrow. For what {is} your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. {It...: or, For it is}

He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

Wherefore I perceive that {there is} nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that {is} his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

The LORD {is} my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.

Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? {when...: or, how it shall be?}

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong {his} days, {which are} as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}

(For we {are but of} yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth {are} a shadow:) {nothing: Heb. not}

His sons come to honour, and he knoweth {it} not; and they are brought low, but he perceiveth {it} not of them.

My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any {thing} that is done under the sun.

The days of our years {are} threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength {they be} fourscore years, yet {is} their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. {The days...: Heb. As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years}

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

{There be} many that say, Who will shew us {any} good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us.

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this {is} the whole {duty} of man. {Let...: or, The end of the matter, even all that hath been heard, is}

I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what {was} that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. {to give...: Heb. to draw my flesh with wine} {all...: Heb. the number of the days of their life}

As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

He hath shewed thee, O man, what {is} good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? {walk...: Heb. humble thyself to walk}

Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?

He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

The LORD {is} the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot. {of mine...: Heb. of my part}

Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this {is} the whole {duty} of man. {Let...: or, The end of the matter, even all that hath been heard, is}

{One} generation passeth away, and {another} generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that {is} thy portion in {this} life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun. {Live...: Heb. See, or, Enjoy life}

But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong {his} days, {which are} as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

Wherefore I perceive that {there is} nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that {is} his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? {is full...: Heb. multiplieth words}

All {things} have I seen in the days of my vanity: there is a just {man} that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked {man} that prolongeth {his life} in his wickedness.

For we {are} strangers before thee, and sojourners, as {were} all our fathers: our days on the earth {are} as a shadow, and {there is} none abiding. {abiding: Heb. expectation}

I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what {was} that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life. {to give...: Heb. to draw my flesh with wine} {all...: Heb. the number of the days of their life}

For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? {when...: or, how it shall be?}

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any {thing} that is done under the sun.

But this I say, brethren, the time {is} short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;

I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.

My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all {is} vanity.

Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}

For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?