Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
My days are like an evening shadow; I wither away like grass.
I am gone like a shadow at evening; I am shaken off like a locust.
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 Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
For we are but of yesterday and know nothing, for our days on earth are a shadow.
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; all is vanity.
We must all die; we are like water spilled on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again. But God will not take away life, and he devises means so that the banished one will not remain an outcast.
But it will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong his days like a shadow, because he does not fear before God.
I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
As for man, his days are like grass; he flourishes like a flower of the field; for the wind passes over it, and it is gone, and its place knows it no more.
Remember how short my time is! For what vanity you have created all the children of man!
Those of low estate are but a breath; those of high estate are a delusion; in the balances they go up; they are together lighter than a breath.
When you discipline a man with rebukes for sin, you consume like a moth what is dear to him; surely all mankind is a mere breath! Selah
“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. And do you open your eyes on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.
how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed like the moth.
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