Psa 109:23
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
King James Version
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And the LORD turned a mighty strong west wind, which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt. {cast: Heb. fastened}
He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
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}
Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
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}
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
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.
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 Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all {that} night; {and} when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.
My days {are} like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
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}
Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members {are} as a shadow. {my members: or, my thoughts}
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. {the night...: Heb. the evening be measured?}