Yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
The king said to Barzillai, “Cross over with me, and I will provide for you with me in Jerusalem.”
Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my distress. Turn Your ear to me— in the day I call, answer me quickly.
Man is like a breath— his days are like a passing shadow.
“Let me know, Adonai, my end and what the number of my days is. Let me know how short-lived I am.
For He remembered that they are but flesh, a passing breath that never returns.
How long, Adonai, will You hide Yourself? Forever? Will Your fury keep burning like fire?
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
Stop trusting in mankind —whose breath is in his nose— for what is he really worth?
Like a shepherd’s tent, my dwelling is pulled up and carried away from me. Like a weaver I rolled up my life. He cuts me off from the loom. From day until night You make my end.
and the rich person in his humble position, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.
For, “All humanity is like grass, And all its glory like a wildflower. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,
Now the end of all things is near. So be self-controlled and sober-minded for prayer.
The world is passing away along with its desire, but the one who does the will of God abides forever.