Man is like vanity; his days, as shadows, pass away.
Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
Man is like vanity and a breath; his days are as a shadow that passes away.
Humans are like a puff of air; their days go by like a shadow.
Generation after generation will praise your works, and they will declare your power.
Generation and generation shall praise thy works: and they shall declare thy power.
My days are like unto a shade, which doth declining pass; And I am dry'd and withered, ev'n like unto the grass.
I pass like a declining shade, am like the locust tost:
When with rebukes thou dost correct man for iniquity, Thou wastes his beauty like a moth: sure each man's vanity.
Surely mean men are vanity, and great men are a lie; In balance laid, they wholly are more light than vanity.
Remember, Lord, how short a time I shall on earth remain: O wherefore is it so that thou has made all men in vain?