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}

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

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.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

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

For a thousand years in thy sight {are but} as yesterday when it is past, and {as} a watch in the night. {when...: or, when he hath passed them}

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}

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

Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; {and} caused the dayspring to know his place;

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

For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}

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