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

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

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale {that is told}. {passed...: Heb. turned away} {as a...: or, as a meditation}

Surely men of low degree {are} vanity, {and} men of high degree {are} a lie: to be laid in the balance, they {are} altogether {lighter} than vanity. {altogether: or, alike}

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all {was} vanity and vexation of spirit, and {there was} no profit under the sun.

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

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}

When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man {is} vanity. Selah. {his...: Heb. that which is to be desired in him to melt away}

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}

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.

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

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

All nations before him {are} as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day {is} with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

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

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}

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}

Surely men of low degree {are} vanity, {and} men of high degree {are} a lie: to be laid in the balance, they {are} altogether {lighter} than vanity. {altogether: or, alike}

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

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

Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?

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.

Nevertheless man {being} in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts {that} perish.

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}

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth {are} vanity. {sorrow: or, anger}

{It is} vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: {for} so he giveth his beloved sleep.

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}

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

For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale {that is told}. {passed...: Heb. turned away} {as a...: or, as a meditation}

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

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all {is} vanity and vexation of spirit.

For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all {is} vanity.

Doth not their excellency {which is} in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

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

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

In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. {wicked: or, troublesome}

And Barzillai said unto the king, How long have I to live, that I should go up with the king unto Jerusalem? {How...: Heb. How many days are the years of my 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.

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

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

I have seen an end of all perfection: {but} thy commandment {is} exceeding broad.

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

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: