² “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
    says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
    Everything is meaningless.”^(A)

³ You turn people back to dust,
    saying, “Return to dust, you mortals.”^(A)
4 A thousand years in your sight
    are like a day that has just gone by,
    or like a watch in the night.^(B)

⁵ Yet you sweep people away^(A) in the sleep of death—
    they are like the new grass of the morning:
⁶ In the morning it springs up new,
    but by evening it is dry and withered.^(B)

¹² Teach us to number our days,^(A)
    that we may gain a heart of wisdom.^(B)

¹³ Relent, Lord! How long^(C) will it be?
    Have compassion on your servants.^(D)

¹⁴ Satisfy^(A) us in the morning with your unfailing love,^(B)
    that we may sing for joy^(C) and be glad all our days.^(D)

¹⁷ May the favor^[a] of the Lord our God rest on us;
    establish the work of our hands for us—
    yes, establish the work of our hands.^(A)

³ “Blessed are the poor in spirit,
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.^(A)