But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish.
Kayin knew his wife. She conceived, and gave birth to Chanokh. He built a city, and called the name of the city, after the name of his son, Chanokh.
Behold, you have made my days handbreadths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.* Selah.
A man who has riches without understanding, is like the animals that perish.
Nevertheless you shall die like men, and fall like one of the rulers.*
For man also doesn't know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
For, *All flesh is like grass, and all of man's glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;