Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.
for we do surely die, and [are] as water which is running down to the earth, which is not gathered, and God doth not accept a person, and hath devised devices in that the outcast is not outcast by Him.
for sojourners we [are] before Thee, and settlers, like all our fathers; as a shadow [are] our days on the land, and there is none abiding.
Also — the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation [is] in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)
(For of yesterday we [are], and we know not, For a shadow [are] our days on earth.)
My days as a shadow [are] stretched out, And I — as the herb I am withered.
As a shadow when it is stretched out I have gone, I have been driven away as a locust.
With reproofs against iniquity, Thou hast corrected man, And dost waste as a moth his desirableness, Only, vanity [is] every man. Selah.
Only — vanity [are] the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity [are] lighter.
Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit!
Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity.
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole [is] vanity.
And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.