People, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts that perish.
Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.
People who have wealth but lack understanding are like the beasts that perish.
But you will die like mere mortals; you will fall like every other ruler.”
Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come: As fish are caught in a cruel net, or birds are taken in a snare, so people are trapped by evil times that fall unexpectedly upon them.
For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,