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

And where {is} now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, {even} the thoughts of my heart. {the thoughts: Heb. the possessions}

The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

For all flesh {is} as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: {For: or, For that}

The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh {is} grass, and all the goodliness thereof {is} as the flower of the field:

Mine age is departed, and is removed from me as a shepherd's tent: I have cut off like a weaver my life: he will cut me off with pining sickness: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me. {with...: or, from the thrum}

{As for} man, his days {are} as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.

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

When a few years are come, then I shall go the way {whence} I shall not return. {a few...: Heb. years of number}

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

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue}

Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are {as} a sleep: in the morning {they are} like grass {which} groweth up. {groweth...: or, is changed}

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}

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

What {is} my strength, that I should hope? and what {is} mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go. {There...: or, Is the case desperate?}

Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; {to the end: Gr. perfectly}

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}

Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, {even} the thoughts of my heart. {the thoughts: Heb. the possessions}

Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him. {maintain: Heb. prove, or, argue}

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}

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

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

The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow {out} of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man. {washest...: Heb. overflowest}

And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig {about thee, and} thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. {it is...: Heb. it is not}

{Are} not my days few? cease {then, and} let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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.

He hath destroyed me on every side, and I am gone: and mine hope hath he removed like a tree.

How many {are} the days of thy servant? when wilt thou execute judgment on them that persecute me?

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.

And where {is} now my hope? as for my hope, who shall see it?