My days have become swifter than a runner – they have fled, they have not seen good.
And the runners went to all Yisra’ĕ
The runners, riding on royal horses, went out, hastened and pressed on by the sovereign’s command. And the decree was given out in the citadel of Shushan.
“Man born of woman is of few days and turmoil-filled.
“When You chastise man for crookedness with reproofs, You consume what he loves, like a moth; All men are but a breath. Selah.
“See, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime is as non-existence before You; Only, all men standing, are all breath. Selah.
Many are saying, “Who would show us good?” יהוה, lift up the light of Your face upon us.
Please remember how short my time is; Why should you have created all the sons of men for naught?
when you do not know of tomorrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapour that appears for a little, and then disappears –