⁴ Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

² Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

³ What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

²² Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils: for wherein is he to be accounted of ?

¹⁴ Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.