who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,
Behold, You have made my days as a handbreadth, and my age is as nothing before You. Surely every man standing is altogether vanity. Selah.
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.
For my days go up like smoke, and my bones glow like a firebrand.
and the rich one rejoice in his humiliation, because he shall pass away as the flower of the grass.
Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?
But the end of all things has drawn near. Therefore be of sound mind, and be sensible to prayers.
My generation is departed and removed from me like a shepherd's tent; I have cut off my life like a weaver; He will cut me off from the loom; from day even to night You will make an end of me.
For He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away and does not come again.
Man is like vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes away.
Do not boast yourself of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
Cease from man, whose breath is in his nostril; for in what is he to be esteemed?
And Barzillai said to the king, How long do I have to live, that I should go up with the king to Jerusalem?