For all the day long have I been plagued, and chastened every morning. {chastened: Heb. my chastisement was}

And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

For we know that if our earthly house of {this} tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.

Princes also did sit {and} speak against me: {but} thy servant did meditate in thy statutes.

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

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

The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding {it}. {destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces}

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}

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Yea, I think it meet, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting {you} in remembrance;

For we that are in {this} tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.

For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

Even that it would please God to destroy me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves {are ready} for me. {breath...: or, spirit is spent}

He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days. {weakened: Heb. afflicted}

It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

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}

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}

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

And {that} thou shouldest visit him every morning, {and} try him every moment?

The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

They are destroyed from morning to evening: they perish for ever without any regarding {it}. {destroyed: Heb. beaten in pieces}

He buildeth his house as a moth, and as a booth {that} the keeper maketh.

Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, {even} of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.