yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
for “All flesh is like grass and all its glory like the flower of grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls,
Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
For my days pass away like smoke, and my bones burn like a furnace.
My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle and come to their end without hope. “Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
“Man who is born of a woman is few of days and full of trouble. He comes out like a flower and withers; he flees like a shadow and continues not.
“My days are swifter than a runner; they flee away; they see no good. They go by like skiffs of reed, like an eagle swooping on the prey.
and the rich in his humiliation, because like a flower of the grass he will pass away.
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
You sweep them away as with a flood; they are like a dream, like grass that is renewed in the morning: in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. For we are brought to an end by your anger; by your wrath we are dismayed.
My dwelling is plucked up and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; like a weaver I have rolled up my life; he cuts me off from the loom; from day to night you bring me to an end;
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