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.
Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust?
“Remember that my life is a breath; my eye will never again see good.
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.
Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
“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.
How long must your servant endure? When will you judge those who persecute me?
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!
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